Uejima Onitsura
Uejima Onitsura was a Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period, famous in the Osaka region for his haiku poetry. Belonging to the Danrin school of Japanese poetry, Uejima is credited of helping to define and exemplify Bashō's style of poetry.
Born to a family of brewers in Itami, Uejima showed exceptional talent in poetry at the age of eight. At the age of 25, Uejima moved to Osaka, where he began his professional career in haiku and other forms of poetry.
