Ōkuma Kotomichi

Japanese author

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In Japanese literature: Late Tokugawa period (c. 1770–1867)
poets such as Ryōkan, Ōkuma Kotomichi, and Tachibana Akemi proved that the tanka was not limited to descriptions of the sights of nature or disappointed love but could express joy over fish for dinner or wrath at political events. Some poets who felt that the tanka did not provide…
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