Takuboku Ishikawa

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.