2 Quotes & Sayings By Masaoka Shiki
Shiki Masaoka was born in 1887 in Takaoka, Aichi Prefecture. He died in 1963. At the age of 20, Shiki became a Buddhist monk, but resigned after two years due to poverty. In 1913 he founded his own school of Zen Buddhism
His most famous works are Senryu-shu (Senryu poetry) consisting of poems composed of five syllables or less.