TAKAHA Shugyo was born in Yamagata in 1930, began writing haiku when he was 15 years old and studied haiku from YAMAGUCHI Seishi and AKIMOTO Fujio. He is founder and leader of the haiku magazine "Kari" (Hunting) established in 1978. He is a judge of Mainichi newspaper and NHK National Haiku Contest , president of the Association of Haiku Poets, adviser to the Haiku International Association and a director of the Japan Writers' Association. He received the Minister of Education's Young Poets Award in 1965 for his haiku collection "Birth" and in 1975, the Mainichi Newspaper Art Award for "Wing Lights" and "Thirteenth Day Moon". He has published many haiku collections, critiques, guide books and anthologies.

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