The haiku poet and artist Yosa Buson was born in the village of Kema near Osaka in 1716. His actual surname is thought to have been Tani or Taniguchi, but he later used the name Yosa.

Born in Settsu Province, near Osaka, in 1716, Yosa Buson moved to Edo (now Tokyo) as a young man, where he studied haikai literary traditions under Hayano Hajin. After Hajin’s death, he spent ...

Yosa Buson (1716-1783) shares the birth year as Jakuchu, though the occasion is celebrated on a smaller scale. He worked in the literati tradition adopted from China at the end of the 17th ...

March 18-May 10. The Suntory Museum of Art is commemorating the upcoming 300th year since the birth of two early modern Japanese painters — Ito Jakuchu and Yosa Buson — both of whom were born ...

Yosa, Buson 1716-1784 Santorī Bijutsukan Miho Museum Subject Itō, Jakuchū 1716-1800 Yosa, Buson 1716-1784 Notes Catalog of an exhibition held at Santorī Bijutsukan, March 18-May 10 and at Miho Museum, ...

More than 200 poems by the great 18th century haiku author and painter Yosa Buson have just been discovered in a library near Kyoto. Stephen Gill, a poet and translator who lives nearby reports on ...

Both born in 1716, a year that also saw the passing of Rinpa school innovator Ogata Korin, Kyoto-based painters Ito Jakuchu and Yosa Buson came to make indelibl ...