Chikashi Koizumi (古泉 千樫 Koizumi Chikashi; 1886–1927) was a Japanese tanka poet.
Biography
Chikashi Koizumi was born on 26 September 1886.[1] He was born in Yoshio Village, Awa District (modern-day Kamogawa City), Chiba Prefecture.[2]
His real name was Ikutarō Koizumi (古泉 幾太郎 Koizumi Ikutarō),[3] and he also used the pseudonyms Kosai (沽哉), Suinansō-shunin (椎南荘主人) and Minooka-rōjin (蓑岡老人).[2]
He graduated the Chiba Prefecture Teachers' Training Centre (千葉県教員講習所 Chiba-ken Kyōin Kōshū-sho),[2] and for a time worked as a primary school teacher,[3] before resigning[2] and moving to Tokyo.[3]
He died in 11 August 1927.[1]
Writings
Koizumi published many of his early tanka poems in the Tokyo daily newspaper Yorozu Chōhō.[2] When he was 17 he published a poem in Kokoro no Hana,[2] and then in the tanka journal Ashibi (馬酔木).[2] He became a disciple of Itō Sachio.[2]
In 1924, he joined Yūgure Maeda, Hakushū Kitahara, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Chikashi Koizumi, Zenmaro Toki and others in forming a group to publish a new literary magazine, Nikkō, which was to be purely devoted to Modernism.[4]
References
- ^ a b 20-Seiki Nihon Jinmei Jiten 2004; Motobayashi 1994; Keene 1999, p. 35.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 20-Seiki Nihon Jinmei Jiten 2004.
- ^ a b c 20-Seiki Nihon Jinmei Jiten 2004; Motobayashi 1994.
- ^ Keene 1999, p. 37.
Works cited
- Keene, Donald (1999) [1984]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 4: Dawn to the West – Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Poetry, Drama, Criticism) (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11435-6.
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