Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (born 1886)

Takuboku Ishikawa

Japanese poet

Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" or "free-style" 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.