{{short description|Japanese linguist, poet and philosopher}} {{family name hatnote|Yokoi|lang=Japanese}} {{Infobox writer | name = Yokoi Yayū (横井 也有) | image = Yokoi Yayu.jpg | alt = Yokoi Yayū | caption = Yokoi Yayū | pseudonym = Tatsunojō | birth_name = Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般) | birth_date = {{birth date|1702|10|24}} | birth_place = [[Nagoya]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1783|07|15|1702|10|24}} | occupation = Poet | nationality = [[Japan]]ese | notableworks = Uzuragoromo 鶉衣(The Quail's Cloak) }}
{{nihongo|'''Yokoi Yayū'''|横井 也有||extra=October 24, 1702 – July 15, 1783}} was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[samurai]] best known for his [[haibun]], a scholar of [[Kokugaku]], and [[haikai]] poet. He was born {{nihongo|Yokoi Tokitsura|横井 時般}}, and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō. His family are believed to be descendants of [[Hōjō Tokiyuki]].
== Life == Yayū was born in [[Nagoya]], the first son of {{nihongo|Yokoi Tokihira|時衡}} who served the [[Owari Domain]]. He inherited the Yokoi House's patrimony at twenty-six and held important posts of the Owari Domain. He was for example ''yōnin'' (manager of general affairs), ''Ōbangashira'' (chief of guard) and ''Jisha-Bugyō'' (manager of religious affairs). In 1754, at age 53, he retired for health reasons. Yayū moved to {{nihongo|Maezu|前津}} (now in [[Naka-ku, Nagoya]]), and lived in the {{nihongo|Chiutei|知雨亭}} hermitage. He was a prolific and respected composer of haibun, [[Classical Chinese]] poems, [[Waka (poetry)|waka]] and Japanese satirical poems, and was an adept of the [[Japanese tea ceremony]].
== Works == Yayū also excelled in [[Japanese martial arts]], studied [[Confucianism]] and learned [[haikai]] from Mutō Hajaku (武藤巴雀) and Ōta Hajō (太田巴静). Hajaku and Hajō were pupils of [[Kagami Shikō]] (各務支考), a leading disciple of [[Matsuo Bashō]]. [[Mori Senzō]] (森銑三), a student of old Japanese literature, compared his ''[[hokku]]'' to [[senryū]], and said they were not as interesting as his ''haibun''. Yayū has been described as a master of ''haibun'', and [[Nagai Kafū]] 永井荷風 called Yayū's ''haibun'' a model of Japanese prose.
[[Image:Uzuragoromo.jpg|thumb|150px|Uzuragoromo]] * "Uzuragoromo" (鶉衣) : An anthology of ''haibun'', partially translated in ''Monumenta Nipponica'', vol. 34, no. 3, Autumn 1979, by Lawrence Rogers. * "Rayō Shū", "Tetsu Shū" (蘿葉集), (垤集): Anthology of haiku. * "More Oke" (漏桶): Anthology of ''[[renku]]'' * "Kankensō" (管見草): Essay on ''haikai'' * "Rain Hen" (蘿隠編): Prose and poetry in [[Classical Chinese]] * "Gyō-Gyō-Shi" (行々子): An anthology of Japanese satirical poems
== See also == *[[Haibun]] *[[Haiku]]
== References == * "Zoku Kinsei Kijinden" (続近世畸人伝) by [[Ban Kōkei]] (伴蒿蹊) (in Japanese) * "Haika Kijin-Dan" (俳家奇人談) by [[Takenouchi Gengen-ichi]] (竹内玄玄一) (in Japanese)
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