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A fact from Kaijin Akashi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 September 2019 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atsushi Fujiwara.

It seems rather obvious that Noda called himself "Akashi" from the first hospital, and that the latter was in Akashi, Hyōgo. However, I can't yet join the dots. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:08, 7 August 2019 (UTC) reply

Actually the hospital was in what's now Nishi-ku, Kobe. It may well have been in Akashi District, Hyōgo until 1951 or some time earlier, but I don't propose to investigate. -- Hoary ( talk) 04:37, 9 August 2019 (UTC) reply

When did he start writing poetry? Ikeda says before he was hospitalized. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:08, 7 August 2019 (UTC) reply

Retracting the question, at least for now. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:05, 13 August 2019 (UTC) reply

The CiNii record says that Hakubyō was published by Kaizōsha (改造社); the OCLC record says that it was published by Ishikawa Shobō (石川書房). Perhaps one of these records is mistaken; perhaps each of the two companies played a part in the publication and both are shown in the book's colophon. (As farfetched as this may sound, it's common in Japanese book publishing.) -- Hoary ( talk) 10:05, 13 August 2019 (UTC) reply