extra=26 April 1885 – 3 October 1962 was a Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the city of Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was Iida Takeji. He trained under Kyoshi Takahama, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu (magazine) and . He was chief editor of Unmo until his death, upon which his son, the prominent haiku poet Ryuta Iida, took over as the editor of Unmo.
Partial bibliography
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Sanro shū, (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932)
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Reishi, (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940)
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Shinzō, (The Mind's Eye, 1947)
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Sekkyō, (Snow Gorge, 1951),
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Kakyō no kiri, (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).
See also
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Marcombe Shiffert, Yūki Sawa: "Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry", Neuauflage Tuttle Publishing, 1972, , S. 186
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Patricia Donegan: "Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart", Neuauflage Shambhala Publications, 2010, , S. 172
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Yuzuru Miura: "Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection", Neuauflage Tuttle Publishing, 1991, , S. 34
