In 1950, he was born , in Yoshikawa, Saitama
Prefecture, Japan. His father Kawai Gaifu
was haiku poet, so haiku has been familiar
with him since early childhood. When he was
4, his family moved to Noda, Chiba Prefecture.
It was neighboring Yosikawa separated by
the big river called Edogawa. From then,
it has been his important keyword to "cross
the river". After graduating from Saitama
University, he taught Japanese language in
junior high school and studied media education
and modern Haiku. In 1992, he won the 11th
Modern Haiku Association Critique Prize for
the essay on Modernity in Masaoka Shiki.
Now, he is the president of haiku magazine
Jiku. He completed the doctor course of the the Graduate School of Library, Information
and Media Studies University of Tsukuba.
He is a Doctor of Philosophy in Information
science.Pubications include an anthology of his haiku,
"My Whereabouts"(2000), "Osamaranu"(2005) and the essay, "Modernity in
Shiki — humor, media, and Japanse"
(1999).
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