[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is April 13th?

Takuboku Memorial (Iwate Prefecture)

April 13th is the anniversary of the death of Ishikawa Takuboku, a poet and tanka writer from the Meiji era .

Takuboku Ishikawawas born on February 20, 1886, in Hito Village, Minami-Iwate District, Iwate Prefecture (present-day Hito, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture). His real name was Hajime Ishikawa.

After dropping out of the former Morioka Junior High School, he distinguished himself as a romantic poet, contributing to "Myojo" (a monthly literary magazine focusing on poetry), and after working as a newspaper proofreader in Tokyo, he gained fame as a poet with his first collection of poems, "A Handful of Sand," published in 1910

He died of tuberculosis on April 13, 1912, at the age of 26

Anniversary of Shinpei Goto's death (Iwate Prefecture)

Shinpei Goto , a physician, bureaucrat, and politician of the Meiji era, was born on July 24, 1857 (June 4, 4th year of the Ansei era in the Gregorian calendar) in Shiogama Village, Izawa District, Mutsu Province (present-day Mizusawa, Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture) as the eldest son of Sanetaka and Rie Goto, retainers of the Rusu family, a branch of the Sendai Domain.

He was nicknamed "the grandiose man" due to the sheer scale of his plans , and he held various positions including Chief of Civil Affairs of the Governor-General of Taiwan, first president of the South Manchuria Railway (Mantetsu), Minister of Communications, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the 7th mayor of Tokyo

On April 4, 1929 (Showa 4), while en route to the general meeting of the Japan Association for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Okayama, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (cerebral hemorrhage) and lost consciousness on an express train near Maibara Station in Shiga Prefecture. He was admitted to Kyoto Prefectural University Hospital, but did not recover and died on April 13

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