Chikashi Koizumi
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 schoo ...
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