There is a revised version of the reprint of
Hisago, a haiku poetry anthology compiled by Matsuo-Bashō’s disciple Hamada-Chinseki. It has been often said that Kagami-Shikō revised it for his own argument of the master’s poetical style in his essay “Nijūgo-jō.” But it seems to be improbable because the essay was published after his death in the sixteenth year of the Kyōho Period when the publisher Izutsuya didn’t plan to reprint
Hisago yet. Rather what is important is that the anthology was reissued in the midst of the Bashō revival which started with the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Interestingly enough “Nijūgo-jō” was so positively received in the revival movement that Kagami’s tampering was believed to be authorized by the master himself. As a result Izutsuya regarded the revised poems in “Nijūgo-jō as legitimate and adopted them for the reprint.
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