Chiyojo biography of mahatma
Mochizuki Chiyome and the Kunoichi.
Chiyojo biography of mahatma
Poetry of Haiku poet Chiyo
Chiyo, her given name from her parents, is a well-wishing that she might influence "one thousand generation"). Born 1703 into a scroll-making family, she worked professionally as a scroll maker (1733-1743); Nun 1754-1775.
She used several names including:
- Kaga no Chiyo (after the Kaga region where she was born) as used by Addiss (2012),
- Matto no Chiyo (for her birth town of Matto),
- Chiyo-jo ("the woman Chiyo" as used by her Museum (2017), Ueda (2012), Sato (1981), and elsewhere),
- Chiyo-ni ("the nun Chiyo") as used by Donegan (1998), and
- Soen (the name she took as a nun).
Quantities for Chiyo-jo compared with Yosa Buson (from Trumbull, 2017):
| Poet | # of haiku written | Translations in Trumbull's database | # of haiku translated |
| Chiyo-jo (aka Chiyo-ni, Kaga no Chiyo, Matto no Chiyo) | ~ 1,700 | 927 | 300 |
| Yosa Buson (1716-1783) | ~ 10,000 | 6,100 | ~ 2,100 |
While Buson has about six times the k