Chikashi Koizumi
Japanese poet and writer
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.
Biography
Chikashi Koizumi was born on 26 September 1886. He was born in Yoshio Village, Awa District (modern-day Kamogawa City), Chiba Prefecture.
His real name was Ikutarō Koizumi (古泉 幾太郎 Koizumi Ikutarō), and he also used the pseudonyms Kosai (沽哉), Suinansō-shunin (椎南荘主人) and Minooka-rōjin (蓑岡老人).
He graduated the Chiba Prefecture Teachers' Training Centre (千葉県教員講習所 Chiba-ken Kyōin Kōshū-sho), and for a time worked as a primary school teacher, before resigning in 1908 and moving to Tokyo.
He died on 11 August 1927.
Writings
Koizumi published many of his early tanka poems in the Tokyo daily newspaper Yorozu Chōhō.
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