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*''Born: [[1753]]''

*''Born: [[1753]]/10/14''

*''Died: [[1826]]''

*''Died: [[1826]]/8/23''

*''Japanese'': 田上菊舎 ''(Tagami Kikusha)''

Tagami Kikusha was a [[Pure Land]] sect Buddhist nun known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, [[tea culture|tea practitioner]], maker of tea utensils, and traveler. After taking the tonsure at age 27, she spent the next thirty years traveling the archipelago.

Tagami Kikusha was a [[Pure Land]] sect Buddhist nun known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, [[tea culture|tea practitioner]], maker of tea utensils, and traveler.

 

Kikusha was born in [[Shimonoseki]] in [[1753]]. She was married into the local Murata family at age 16, but her husband died four years later; she had no children and returned to her parents' household. After taking the tonsure at age 27, she spent the next thirty years traveling the archipelago; an admirer of [[Basho|Bashô]], she took to practicing ''[[haikai]]'', and became a notable poet in her own right.

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==References==

==References==

*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 66.

*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 66.

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[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]

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