Takuboku Ishikawa (石川 啄木, Ishikawa Takuboku, February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet. 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. He died of tuberculosis.
Takuboku Ishikawa | |
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Born | |
Died | April 13, 1912 | (aged 26)
Other names | 石川 啄木 |
Occupation | Poet |
His major works were two volumes of tanka poems plus his diaries:
Ishikawa wrote some of his diaries in a Latin script transliteration of Japanese so that his wife could not read them.[1]
A fictionalised Ishikawa appears in the anime Woodpecker Detective's Office.
Ishikawa is summoned as a Pseudo-Servant in the body of Makidera Kaede in the Fate/Grand Order X Himuro's World crossover episode.
Ishikawa also appears in Golden Kamuy, as an ally of Hijikata Toshizō.
Donald Keene, The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.