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Takuboku Ishikawa

1886 - 1912

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Takuboku Ishikawa (石川 啄木, Ishikawa Takuboku; Japanese pronunciation: [i.ɕi̥.ka.wa (|) ta.kɯ.bo.kɯ], February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" (新体詩, shintaishi) or "free-style" (自由詩, jiyūshi) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Takuboku Ishikawa is the 3,031st most popular writer (down from 2,735th in 2019), the 923rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 811th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Takuboku Ishikawa ranks 3,031 out of 7,302. Before him are Ishaq ibn Hunayn, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Siegfried Sassoon, Gunilla Bergström, Marcin Bielski, and Raffi. After him are Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Gerard Reve, Arthur Cravan, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Friedrich Wolf, and Buddhadasa.

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Among people born in 1886, Takuboku Ishikawa ranks 141. Before him are Bertha Krupp, Grigory Neujmin, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Helen Parkhurst, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, and Siegfried Sassoon. After him are Max Vasmer, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Fred Quimby, Radhabinod Pal, Alexander Svanidze, and Florence Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1912, Takuboku Ishikawa ranks 67. Before him are Julius Maggi, Pyotr Lebedev, Édouard Detaille, Clara Barton, Allan Octavian Hume, and Eloy Alfaro. After him are Mykola Pymonenko, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Francisco Lázaro, Ernest Duchesne, Henri Brisson, and Andrew Lang.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takuboku Ishikawa ranks 923 out of 6,245. Before him are Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), and Nagakura Shinpachi (1839). After him are Jirō Minami (1874), Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), Ken Shimura (1950), Inō Tadataka (1745), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Takuboku Ishikawa ranks 66. Before him are Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Saigyō (1118), George Ohsawa (1893), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Yūko Tsushima (1947), and Nobuko Yoshiya (1896). After him are Fumiko Enchi (1905), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Jien (1155), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Kafū Nagai (1879).

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