Kinoshita Rigen
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Kinoshita Rigen
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| Native name | 木下 利玄 |
| Born |
1 January 1886 Okayama, Japan |
| Died | 15 February 1925 (aged 39) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Resting place |
Yanaka Cemetery, Tokyo Daiko-ji, Okayama |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
| Genre | tanka poetry |
Kinoshita Rigen (木下 利玄?, 1 January 1886 - 15 February 1925) was the pen-name of Japanese author Viscount Kinoshita Toshiharu, noted for his tanka poetry, active in Meiji period and Taishō period Japan.
Kinoshita was born in what is now part of Okayama city, Okayama prefecture, and was a direct lineal descendent of a brother-in-law of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His uncle, Kinoshita Toshiyasu, was the 13th and last daimyo of Ashimori han (25,000 koku). After the Meiji Restoration, he was given the title of viscount (shishaku) under the kazoku peerage system. When he died, his nephew Kinoshita Rigen, only 5 years old, succeeded to the main family as Viscount Kinoshita. Kinoshita would have thus been a daimyo if the Tokugawa shogunate had lasted only a few years longer. Kinoshita attended the Gakushuin Peers’ School, where he was a classmate of Mushanokōji Saneatsu. He subsequently graduated from the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University, where his classmates included Shiga Naoya, and he was a student of the noted poet Sasaki Nobutsuna
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