There are no noticeable scratches or stains on the photo itself, but please understand that it is managed by an individual. Old photos have been digitized and enhanced to high resolution. As they are old photos, there were originally scratches and stains. Traces of these remain. Furthermore, since they have been enhanced to high resolution, the atmosphere of the time remains. We appreciate your understanding. #Takuboku Ishikawa #IwatePrefecture #Former Morioka Middle School #Iwate Prefectural Morioka Daiichi High School #AsahiShimbun #Mokusu Wakayama ◆ Takuboku Ishikawa (February 20, 1886 - April 13, 1912) was a Japanese tanka poet and poet from Iwate Prefecture. "Takuboku" is his pen name, and his real name is Hajime Ishikawa. After dropping out of the former Morioka Middle School, he gained prominence as a Romantic poet contributing to "Myojo" and published his first poetry collection at the age of 19. However, due to financial difficulties, he worked as a substitute teacher and newspaper reporter while aspiring to be a novelist, but failed. After becoming a proofreader for a newspaper in Tokyo, he published his first tanka collection, "A Handful of Sand," in 1910. This collection adopted a new style of tanka in a three-line format that was close to everyday life, and he gained fame as a tanka poet. In addition, he deepened his interest in socialism after the #KotokuIncident (#GreatTreasonIncident) that occurred in the same year, and also wrote literary criticism, but he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26.