Murakami Kijo

Murakami Kijo (村上 鬼城, Murakami Kijō, 1865–1938) was a Japanese poet who wrote haiku.

Kijo was born in 1865 in Edo, Japan. He studied law but gave this up after losing his hearing due to illness. In 1894, he worked as a legal scribe in Takasaki. He helped publish the first edition of Hototogisu, a haiku magazine. He published his collection of work in 1917. In 1927, his house burned down with everything that he owned. Kijo died on September 17, 1938.^[1]