Mitsuo Aida

At an early age he showed interest in calligraphy and tanka poetry and was characterized for an original style.

After graduation he proceeded to study poetry with Yamashita Mutsuk and calligraphy with Iwasawa Kei-seki.

[2] Shortly after his death, in 1996, the Mitsuo Aida Museum opened in Ginza, a neighborhood in Tokyo.

In a 2011 pre-election speech, the politician quoted Aida's poetry, saying, "The loach, it doesn't have to imitate the goldfish."

[8] The museum opened in 1996 in Ginza and in 2003 moved to new location near Yurakucho Station,[9] inside the Tokyo International Forum.