In 1951 he began to work as a librarian at the library of Yamanashi prefecture in Kōfu city but later embarked on a new career as a creative writer.
In 1960, he was made a columnist in the local newspaper "Mica", for which he had been writing articles since the end of the Second World War.
His father Dakotsu, who edited the prestigious haiku magazine "Unmo", died in 1962, and Ryuta Iida took over as the editor.
In 2005, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing brought out his Complete Works in ten volumes.
Two years later, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing brought out a volume of his Complete Poems.