Hakyo Ishida (As of Nov.1966)

Hakyo Ishida (1913-1969) was born the second son to father "Sogoro", mother "Yuh" at the 980, Nishi-Habu section, Habu Village, Onsen County, Ehime Prefecture. His real name was "Tetsuo". In 1921(Taisho 11), he entered Matsuyama Junior Highschool and began to compose Haiku on the recommendation of his classmate "Shozo Nakatomi"(A movie actor:Ryutaro Ohtomo) in his forth year of the school, an d adopted "Niryo" and "Sanmin" as his Haiku pen name. By the way, Ohtomo's pen name was "Joen" and "Yuyu".
In 1930(Showa 5), he visited Kokyo Ikazaki(a disciple of Shuoshi Mizuhara) lived in Yodo Village and was given pen name "Hakyo" by Kokyo. In 1934(Showa 9), he took part in the edition of Haiku Magazine "Ashibi", left Meiji University he had entered that year, and devoted himself to compose Haiku following Mantaro Kubota. In Sept. of 1937(Showa 12), he started Haiku Magazine "Tsuru" and became the president of it.
He died at the age of 56, in 1969(Showa 44).