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* ''Other names: Hokkyo''

* ''Other names: Hokkyo''

Jôha was the younger son of a temple servant at the [[Ichijoin|Ichijôin]] in [[Nara province]] who died when Jôha was 12. After a period of monastic life, Jôha became a priest though he elected to devote himself to poetry and traveled with noted renga composer [[Shukei|Shûkei]] to [[Kyoto]] in [[1542]]. He trained under [[Satomura Shokyu|Satomura Shôkyu]] and assumed the Satomura name after the death of the latter in [[1552]], as well as becoming a foster father to Shôkyu's son [[Satomura Shoshitsu|Shôshitsu]]. As head of the [[Satomura school]] of [[renga]], Jôha's fame gradually increased and he gained both [[Miyoshi Chokei]] and [[Matsunaga Hisahide]] as patrons and later became a teacher for Chokei's son [[Miyoshi Yoshioki|Yoshioki]]. He gained the favor of [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1568]] when the latter entered Kyoto and over the next ten years composed verse with such great names as [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and [[Hosokawa Fujitaka]]. When Akechi killed Nobunaga in [[1582]], Jôha managed to spirit the crown prince out of [[Nijo palace|Nijô]] and harm's way, which held him in good stead when [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi ]]questioned him afterwards (he had been involved in a provocative linked-verse session with Mitsuhide only days before Nobunaga's death). He became active in politics under Hideyoshi and a companion of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]], an association that led to his banishment to [[Miidera]] when Hidetsugu was ordered to commit suicide in [[1595]]. Jôha was allowed to return to Kyoto in the fall of [[1596]] and was soon forgiven by Hideyoshi. While enjoying the reputation of being Japan's last true renga master and a discerning critic, Jôha's reputation suffered from what some saw as opportunism and ambition in his character. His most notable works included the [[Renga Shihosho|''Renga Shihôshô'']] (Book of the Supreme Treasure of Renga) and his own journal, which detailed a trip he took to view [[Mt. Fuji]] in [[1567]].

Jôha was the younger son of a temple servant at the [[Ichijoin|Ichijôin]] in [[Yamato province]] who died when Jôha was 12. After a period of monastic life, Jôha became a priest though he elected to devote himself to poetry and traveled with noted ''renga'' poet [[Shukei|Shûkei]] to [[Kyoto]] in [[1542]]. He trained under [[Satomura Shokyu|Satomura Shôkyu]] and assumed the Satomura name after the death of the latter in [[1552]], as well as becoming a foster father to Shôkyu's son [[Satomura Shoshitsu|Shôshitsu]]. As head of the [[Satomura school]] of ''renga'', Jôha's fame gradually increased and he gained both [[Miyoshi Chokei]] and [[Matsunaga Hisahide]] as patrons and later became a teacher for Chokei's son [[Miyoshi Yoshioki|Yoshioki]]. He gained the favor of [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1568]] when the latter entered Kyoto and over the next ten years composed verse alongside such great names as [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and [[Hosokawa Fujitaka]]. When Akechi killed Nobunaga in [[1582]], Jôha managed to spirit the crown prince out of [[Nijo palace|Nijô]] and harm's way, which held him in good stead when [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] questioned him afterwards (he had been involved in a provocative linked-verse session with Mitsuhide only days before Nobunaga's death). He became active in politics under Hideyoshi and a companion of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]], an association that led to his banishment to [[Miidera]] when Hidetsugu was ordered to commit suicide in [[1595]]. Jôha was allowed to return to Kyoto in the fall of [[1596]] and was soon forgiven by Hideyoshi. While enjoying the reputation of being Japan's last true ''renga'' master and a discerning critic, Jôha's reputation suffered from what some saw as opportunism and ambition in his character. His most notable works included the [[Renga Shihosho|''Renga Shihôshô'']] (Book of the Supreme Treasure of Renga) and his own journal, which detailed a trip he took to view [[Mt. Fuji]] in [[1567]].

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