The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku

by Donald Keene

Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance of the unhappy poet, but there has been no satisfactory biography of his life or career, even in Japanese, and only a small part of his writings have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179723
• ISBN13: 9780231179720
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher