Mukai Kyorai

Mukai Kyorai (向井 去来, 1651 – 8 October 1704) was a Japanese haiku poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō.

A physician's son, Kyorai was born in Nagasaki to a samurai family.

[2] His wife Kana-jo and sister Chine-jo were also notable haiku writers.

[4] In 1691 he was one of the compilers, together with Nozawa Bonchō, of the Sarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat) Bashō-school collection.

After Bashō's death he produced Kyoraishō, a rich source for the ideas of, and anecdotes about, his master.