Born in Kema village in Settsu (Osaka).
Around this time he went to Edo and studied haikai under Hayano Hajin.
When his teacher died, he wandered northern Kantō and the northeast for about ten years, following Bashō's footsteps.
He settled in Kyoto and threw himself into the study of painting as well.
He spent about three years at Miyazu in Tango painting steadily, later becoming a master of Chinese-style literati painting (nanga).
He took over his teacher's name Yahantei and became a central figure in Kyoto haikai.
With the painter Ike no Taiga he created the Ten Conveniences and Ten Pleasures album, now a National Treasure.
He composed "Rapeseed blossoms— the moon in the east, the sun in the west." Many of his verses are vividly visual, called painterly haiku.
He created a new form of poem mixing haiku and Chinese verse, Shunpū Batei no Kyoku.
He died in Kyoto. His last verse is said to speak of nights now dawning only on white plum blossoms.
Tokugawa YoshimuneIshida BaiganKamo no MabuchiAoki Kon'yōItō JakuchūTanuma OkitsuguMaeno RyōtakuIke no Taiga
People of the Edo period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.