Ishikawa Takuboku

Ishikawa Hajime, known as Takuboku, was born in 1886 in a Buddhist temple in Iwate, where his father was the priest. He left the Morioka middle school in 1902 for literature, then worked as a substitute teacher and journalist in several towns of Hokkaidō. Settled in Tokyo in 1908, he lived there in poverty and in 1909 became a proofreader for the daily Asahi. He kept a diary in Latin characters so that his wife could not read it. Shaken by the high treason affair of 1910, he moved closer to socialism, and died of tuberculosis on 13 April 1912.

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