Ishikawa Takuboku
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Ishikawa Takuboku (石川 啄木 was born on February 20, 1886 and died of tuberculosis April 13, 1912). He was well known as both a tanka and 'modern-style' (shintaishi or just shi) or 'free-style' (jiyūshi) poet. Beginning as a member of the Myôjô group of naturalist poets, he later joined the 'socialistic' group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism.
His major works were two volumes of tanka poems plus his diaries:
- Ichiakuno suna (A Handful of Sand) 1910
- Kanashiki gangu (Sad Toys) published posthumously in 1912
References
- Ishikawa Takuboku, Romaji Diary and Sad Toys, translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1985.
- Ishikawa Takuboku, Takuboku: Poems to Eat, translated by Carl Sesar, Tokyo. Kodansha International, 1966.
- Ueda, Makoto, Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press © 1983 ISBN 0-8047-1166-6 [Ishikawa Takuboku is one of the eight poets profiled in the book, with 42 pages devoted to him. There are 9 "free-style" poems and 31 tanka included in the commentary.]
External link
- e-texts of Ishikawa Takuboku's works (http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person153.html#sakuhin_list_1) at Aozora bunko