Takuboku Ishikawa

In this Japanese name, the family name is Ishikawa.
Statue of Takuboku in Hakodate, Hokkaidō

Takuboku Ishikawa (石川 啄木 Ishikawa Takuboku, February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" (新体詩 shintaishi) or "free-style" (自由詩 jiyūshi) poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism.

Major works

His major works were two volumes of tanka poems plus his diaries:

Diaries

Ishikawa wrote some of his diaries in the Latin script transliteration of Japanese so that his wife could not read them.[1]

Timeline

Ishikawa Takuboku, ca. 1900

References

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