Early Life
Takahama was born in what is now the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture; his father, Ikenouchi Masatada, was a former samurai. At age nine he inherited from his grandmother's family, and took her surname of Takahama. He became acquainted with Shiki via a classmate (Kawahigashi Hekigoto), and it was Shiki who gave him the pen-name of Kyoshi.
Ignoring Shiki's advice, he quit school in 1894, and went to Tokyo to study Edo period Japanese literature. In 1895, he enrolled in the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō (present-day Waseda University), but soon left the university for a job as an editor and literary criticism for the literary magazine Nihonjin. While working, he also submitted variants on haiku poetry, experimenting with irregular numbers of syllables. He married in 1897.
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