Chikashi Koizumi (古泉 千樫 Koizumi Chikashi; 1886–1927) was a Japanese tanka poet. After initially working as a primary school teacher in his native Chiba Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo and became a full-time poet. He published in several prestigious poetry magazines, even helping to found both Araragi and Nikkō, before setting up his own poetic society, the Aogaki-kai, and taking on disciples. He died before the society's organ could see print.
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 in 1908 [2] and moving to Tokyo. [3]
He died on 11 August 1927. [1]
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 was a disciple of Itō Sachio. [2] After moving to Tokyo in 1908, he helped found the important poetry magazine Araragi. [2] He had a close working relationship with the poet Saitō Mokichi. [2] In 1913 he co-authored Bareisho no Hana (馬鈴薯の花) with Kenkichi Nakamura . [2]
In 1924, he joined Yūgure Maeda, Hakushū Kitahara, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Zenmaro Toki and others in forming a group to publish a new literary magazine, Nikkō, which was to be purely devoted to Modernism. [4] The following year, he published a personal anthology, Kawa no Hotori (川のほとり). [2] Other collections of his poetry include Okujō no Tsuchi (屋上の土), Seigyū-shū (青牛集), and Teibon Koizumi Chikashi Zenkashū (定本古泉千樫全歌集). [2]
In 1926 he founded the Aogaki-kai (青垣会) and took on students, [2] but before their poetry journal Aogaki could enter publication Koizumi himself died. [2]
Chikashi Koizumi (古泉 千樫 Koizumi Chikashi; 1886–1927) was a Japanese tanka poet. After initially working as a primary school teacher in his native Chiba Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo and became a full-time poet. He published in several prestigious poetry magazines, even helping to found both Araragi and Nikkō, before setting up his own poetic society, the Aogaki-kai, and taking on disciples. He died before the society's organ could see print.
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 in 1908 [2] and moving to Tokyo. [3]
He died on 11 August 1927. [1]
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 was a disciple of Itō Sachio. [2] After moving to Tokyo in 1908, he helped found the important poetry magazine Araragi. [2] He had a close working relationship with the poet Saitō Mokichi. [2] In 1913 he co-authored Bareisho no Hana (馬鈴薯の花) with Kenkichi Nakamura . [2]
In 1924, he joined Yūgure Maeda, Hakushū Kitahara, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Zenmaro Toki and others in forming a group to publish a new literary magazine, Nikkō, which was to be purely devoted to Modernism. [4] The following year, he published a personal anthology, Kawa no Hotori (川のほとり). [2] Other collections of his poetry include Okujō no Tsuchi (屋上の土), Seigyū-shū (青牛集), and Teibon Koizumi Chikashi Zenkashū (定本古泉千樫全歌集). [2]
In 1926 he founded the Aogaki-kai (青垣会) and took on students, [2] but before their poetry journal Aogaki could enter publication Koizumi himself died. [2]