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In the Woods with Takuboku and Kenji – Soul Brothers of Meiji Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

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The two great poets of Iwate, Ishikawa Takuboku and Miyazawa Kenji, were born 50 kilometers and 10 years apart (1886 and 1896) and went to the same middle school in Morioka. They both died young of tuberculosis: Takuboku at 26 in 1912 and Kenji at 37 in 1933.

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