Chikashi Koizumi
Illustration — Chikashi Koizumi Chikashi Koizumi (古泉 千樫 Koizumi Chikashi; 1886–1927) was a Japanese tanka poet. After initially working as a primary school teacher in his native Chiba Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo and became a full-time poet. He published in several prestigious poetry magazines, even helping to found both Araragi and Nikkō, before setting up his own poetic society, the Aogaki-kai, and taking on disciples.
Chikashi Koizumi
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- Born
- 1886 · Kamogawa.
- Died
- 1927
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Chikashi Koizumi Chikashi Koizumi (古泉 千樫 Koizumi Chikashi; 1886–1927) was a Japanese tanka poet. After initially working as a primary school teacher in his native Chiba Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo and became a full-time poet. He published in several prestigious poetry magazines, even helping to found both Araragi and Nikkō, before setting up his own poetic society, the Aogaki-kai, and taking on disciples.
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Chikashi Koizumi was born on 26 September 1886. He was born in Yoshio Village, Awa District (modern-day Kamogawa City), Chiba Prefecture. His real name was Ikutarō Koizumi (古泉 幾太郎 Koizumi Ikutarō), and he also used the pseudonyms Kosai (沽哉), Suinansō-shunin (椎南荘主人) and Minooka-rōjin (蓑岡老人). He graduated the Chiba Prefecture Teachers' Training Centre (千葉県教員講習所 Chiba-ken Kyōin Kōshū-sho), and for a time worked as a primary school teacher, before resigning in 1908 and moving to Tokyo. He died on 11 August 1927.
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1886
Chikashi Koizumi born at Kamogawa.
1927
Chikashi Koizumi died.
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Koizumi published many of his early tanka poems in the Tokyo daily newspaper Yorozu Chōhō. When he was 17 he published a poem in Kokoro no Hana, and then in the tanka journal Ashibi (馬酔木). He was a disciple of Itō Sachio. After moving to Tokyo in 1908, he helped found the important poetry magazine Araragi. He had a close working relationship with the poet Saitō Mokichi. In 1913 he co-authored Bareisho no Hana (馬鈴薯の花) with Kenkichi Nakamura. In 1924, he joined Yūgure Maeda, Hakushū Kitahara, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Zenmaro Toki and others in forming a group to publish a new literary magazine, Nikkō, which was to be purely devoted to Modernism. The following year, he published a personal anthology, Kawa no Hotori (川のほとり). Other collections of his poetry include Okujō no Tsuchi (屋上の土), Seigyū-shū (青牛集), and Teibon Koizumi Chikashi Zenkashū (定本古泉千樫全歌集). In 1926 he founded the Aogaki-kai (青垣会) and took on students, but before their poetry journal Aogaki could enter publication Koizumi himself died.
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