A Japanese poet and literary scholar.

Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional lyric forms ( waka ) with new sensitivity. Became known Kojo Shiragiku no Utah (1888), a transmission of a Chinese poem by Inoue Tetsujirō . He earned merit as a sponsor of young talents like Yosano Akiko , whose works he published in his publishing house. As a literary scholar he entered a. a. as co-author of the first major overall commentary on Ōkagami (with Konakamura Yoshizō ).

"Kōjo shiragiku no uta" was written in 1888 Edit Biography