眞下飛泉と新詩社京都支部

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After Hisen Mashimo graduated from Kyoto Teaching School in March 1899, he became a master of an elementary school and he was also a manager of Kyoto group of Kansai Young Men's Literature Association. When Tekkan Yosano, a famous poet, wanted to contact with them and widen the scope of innuence, and founded Myojo in April 1900,Hisen joined the group with his close friend Suimei Kawai and sent his Tanka diligently. Mr.Kazuo Mashimo, his nephew, still keeps drafts corrected severely by Tekkan.Soon it was reported in the news of the magazine in 1901 that he had founded the branch.At that time Tenmin Kobayashi, a founder of Yoshiahi Gusa (antecedents of Kansai Literature), planed a general meeting of literary men, backed up by the publisher Bunen-do in Ohsaka. It was held in Asazuma of Kitano on January 2. Tekkan,Suimei and Usui Kojima came to the meeting and Hisen took two members from Kyoto. Movement of Kyoto Branch was active in 1902. Gyofu Soma joined it, too, On May 28, 1904,when Hisen was a master of Teaching School, his songs were put on an entertainment and touched feeling of students'parents. They were printed for free distribution and later published by Goshato Book-store. Since then, his anthologies written in narrative style were published one after another. Three of them called Senyu (Comrades) were sung most popularly all over the country. While he composed songs and did his best in writing articles on education and teaching method, he did not send his poems to Myojo any more and kept away from the branch. When Shosho Chino was transfered to the Third High School in September 1908, he stimulated activity of Kyoto Branch and meetings were often held with his wife Masako. Sekitei Hara, a Haiku poet,joined it and composed Tanka in Myojo style. Myojo was discontinued in November,1908 and Kyoto Branch was dissolved in March 1917, when Shosho returned to Tokyo.