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Takuboku Memorial (Iwate Prefecture)

April 13th is Ishikawa Takuboku, .

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

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 at the young age of 26 from tuberculosis

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