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KING OF JOSHU(TOCHIGI PREFECTURE) - KIJO MURAKAMI

  There lived a man in Takasaki city in Gunma prefecture who
was moved by Papers for poem composers by Shiki Masaoka and 
he found his real meaning of life in literature. He worked 
as Daisho(judicial scrivener now) and spent frustrated days 
due to several times disillusion he had met. It was caused 
by the disability of hearing. 
  He failed entrance exam, of the Army officer school 
because of hearing impairment which he had never dreamt.
  Then, he went to Tokyo by himself to study in university 
aiming at to be a lawyer, but the door was also shut because
of the hearing problem.
  The condition worsened so much that even he himself 
realized to heart that he couldn't understand what others 
said well.
  He found new life in literature facing the reality as it 
is, changed the course of life and devoted himself in haiku 
poems.
  Made poems of mountains and rivers of the hometown Joshu 
with pride, reflected the image of himself on wounded or 
disabled little animals.
　His name was Kijo Murakami, one of the representative 
haiku poets of Taisho period.

        Cool Spring Day, 
        A Blind Dog Goes Stumbling Under Moon,
        There Lives the King in a Potatoes Field

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