"In Kyoto Shokyu and Fufu settled down in a house on Gojo... near Takasegawa..., a man-made tributary of the Kamo river... In those days plovers frequented the river, so Shokyu and Fufu named their small abode Chidorian... Plover Hut, which Fufu proceeded to use as an additional haikai name. The house had been the residence of another Yaba disciple, Nukata Fushi... (1687-1747), and Fufu and Shokyu lived there through the generosity of Fushi' s widow and his son Bunge XT, even relying on them for rice and miso."
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Monumenta Nipponica;: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present, 2000.
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Fufu
1714 – 1781
Fufu (1701 - May 7, 1762) was a Japanese samurai-turned-poet.
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