Masaoka Shiki
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Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan
Why Is Masaoka Shiki Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru , was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry.
