Dakotsu Iida(飯田 蛇笏, 26 April 1885 – 3 October 1962) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was Takeji Iida(飯田 武治). He trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo. Collections of Dakotsu include Sanro shû (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932), Reishi (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940), Shinzô (The Mind’s Eye, 1947), Sekkyô (Snow Gorge, 1951), and Kakyô no kiri (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).