Katayama Hokkai

  • Other Names: 孝秩 (Kôchitsu)
  • Japanese: 片山 北海 (Katayama Hokkai)

Katayama Hokkai was a Confucian scholar of the mid-Edo period.

Originally from what is today Niigata prefecture, Hokkai studied for a time in Kyoto, and then moved to Osaka. There, he formed a poetry circle together with Rai Shunsui (a Confucian scholar from Hiroshima) and a number of others.

References

  • Chôsen tsûshinshi to Okayama, Okayama Prefectural Museum (2007), 69.