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"Like to a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day."
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Takuboku Ishikawaたはむれに母を背負ひて — Takuboku Ishikawa
"たはむれに母を背負ひて そのあまり軽きに泣きて 三歩あゆまず"
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Takuboku Ishikawa
Takuboku Ishikawa
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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.
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"Ishikawa was a poet of great ability who wanted to develop critical realism, but dealt too emotively with human suffering and was isolated from the mainstream of socialist activity. He was passionately in sympathy with the latter, but is marked down as a romantic."
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"With the troubled eyes of a youth I envied Birds flying— Flying they sang."
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"Kyoshitsu no Mado yori nigete Tada hitori Kano shiro-ato ni Ne ni yukishi ka na"
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