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*''Birth: [[1749]]''
*''Death: [[1814]]/8/21''
*''Other Names'': [[後藤]]政範 ''(birth name: Gotou Masanori)'', 蘭芝, 二畳庵, 息隠 ''(poetry names: Ranshi, Nijouan, Sokuin)''
*''Japanese'': 栗田樗堂 ''(Kurita Chodou)''

Kurita Chodô was a ''[[haikai]]'' poet of the late 18th and early 19th century; he was considered one of the seven great ''haikai'' poets (the ''shichi-haijin'') of his time.

Kurita was born into a ''[[sake|saké]]'' brewers' family in Matsuyama ([[Iyo province]]), where as an adult he served as a local town elder (''machikata ô-toshiyori''). He studied under [[Kato Kyotai|Katô Kyôtai]], 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]].

Kurita is buried at [[Manshu-ji|Manshû-ji]] in the [[Inland Sea]] port town of [[Mitarai]] (today, part of [[Kure]] City, [[Hiroshima prefecture]]). A wooden plaque, or ''hengaku'', which still hangs in the temple's main hall (''hondô'') was created by Kurita 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]]<!--梁光地・當間親雲上-->.<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 37.</ref>

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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%A0%97%E7%94%B0%E6%A8%97%E5%A0%82 Kurita Chodô]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha, 2009.
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