Dakotsu Iida

Dakotsu Iida (飯田 蛇笏) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was Takeji Iida (飯田 武治). He trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo.

Collections of Dakotsu include Sanro shû (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932), Reishi (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940), Shinzô (The Mind’s Eye, 1947), Sekkyô (Snow Gorge, 1951), and Kakyô no kiri (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).

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