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Taking up an interest in ''haikai'', Kurita studied under Kyoto-based poet [[Kato Kyotai|Katô Kyôtai]]<!--加藤暁台 aka 久村暁台-->, and had close interactions with [[Kobayashi Issa]] and [[Inoue Shiro|Inoue Shirô]]. For example, he is known to have engaged in poetry recital alongside Kobayashi Issa on an occasion in [[1795]], at Matsuyama's famous [[Dogo Onsen|Dôgo Onsen]].

Taking up an interest in ''haikai'', Kurita studied under Kyoto-based poet [[Kato Kyotai|Katô Kyôtai]]<!--加藤暁台 aka 久村暁台-->, and had close interactions with [[Kobayashi Issa]] and [[Inoue Shiro|Inoue Shirô]]. For example, he is known to have engaged in poetry recital alongside Kobayashi Issa on an occasion in [[1795]], at Matsuyama's famous [[Dogo Onsen|Dôgo Onsen]].

After retiring from his official civic position in Matsuyama, Kurita relocated sometime in the first years of the 1800s to the port town of [[Mitarai]] (today part of [[Kure]] City, [[Hiroshima prefecture]]), which lies roughly halfway between his home province of Iyo and the Honshû mainland. As Mitarai lay along the major [[Inland Sea]] trading routes, Kurita remained well-informed and well-connected, but also led a relatively quiet life in retirement, composing poetry, and publishing numerous poetry collections.

After retiring from his official civic position in Matsuyama, Kurita relocated sometime in the first years of the 1800s to the port town of [[Mitarai]] (today part of [[Kure]] City, [[Hiroshima prefecture]]), which lies roughly halfway between his home province of Iyo and the Honshû mainland. As Mitarai lay along the major [[Inland Sea]] trading routes, Kurita remained well-informed and well-connected, but also led a relatively quiet life in retirement, composing poetry, and publishing numerous poetry collections while living in a tiny two-[[tatami]] hermitage.<ref>Plaques on-site at Manshu-ji.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/36055415304/sizes/h/]</ref>

Kurita died on [[1814]]/8/21, and was buried at [[Manshu-ji|Manshû-ji]] in Mitarai. A wooden plaque, or ''hengaku'', which still hangs in the temple's main hall (''hondô'') was created by Kurita, with the help of Kyoto-based woodcarver Yura Jûbei<!--由良重兵衛-->, as a copy of a work of calligraphy, also still today in the temple's collection, by [[Ryukyuan missions to Edo|Ryukyuan envoy]] [[Ryo Kochi|Ryô Kôchi]].<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 37.; plaques on-site at Manshû-ji.</ref>

Kurita died on [[1814]]/8/21, and was buried at [[Manshu-ji|Manshû-ji]] in Mitarai. A wooden plaque, or ''hengaku'', which still hangs in the temple's main hall (''hondô'') was created by Kurita, with the help of Kyoto-based woodcarver Yura Jûbei<!--由良重兵衛-->, as a copy of a work of calligraphy, also still today in the temple's collection, by [[Ryukyuan missions to Edo|Ryukyuan envoy]] [[Ryo Kochi|Ryô Kôchi]].<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 37.; plaques on-site at Manshû-ji.</ref>