Biography

Nozawa Boncho was a Japanese poet born c.1640 in Kanazawa. He spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Boncho was one of Matsuo Bashō's leading disciples and wrote many famous haiku of his period. Boncho died in 1714.

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