was the pen-name of , a Japanese tanka poet and novelist active during the Meiji period of Japan.
Ità  was born in what is now Sanmu city, Chiba prefecture, as the younger son to a farming family. He attended the Meiji Hà Âritsu gakko (the predecessor of Meiji University), but left without graduating.
His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author Masaoka Shiki, who accepted him as a student. Ità  established the literary magazine Araragi in 1903, and served as its editor until 1908. During this time, he published his poems, literary criticism and studies on the Man'yà Âshà «. He published a sentimental love story, ' ("The Wild Daisy", 1906) in the literary magazine Hototogisu. The story became a popular classic, and was made into movies in 1955, 1966 and in 1981.
Ità  came to be regarded as Masaoka Shiki's closest disciple with the posthumous publication of his tanka anthology Sachio Kashà « in 1920. His own disciples included Saità  Mokichi and .
In addition to his literary career, Ità  was also an amateur master of the Japanese tea ceremony. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.