At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan\'s ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world.
Before dying of tuberculosis, Takuboku achieved in his Poems a kind of Buddhist awakening, observing by their means the emptiness of self in a.
Beginning with Poems rich in childhood sorrow and wonder, he progressed in his short life to a poetry of searing objectivity and miraculous self-knowing.
At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan\'s ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world