Chikashi Koizumi
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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.
Chikashi Koizumi was born on 26 September 1886.[1] He was born in Yoshio Village, Awa District (modern-day Kamogawa City), Chiba Prefecture.[2]
His real name was Ikutarō Koizumi (古泉 幾太郎 Koizumi Ikutarō),[3] and he also used the pseudonyms Kosai (沽哉), Suinansō-shunin (椎南荘主人) and Minooka-rōjin (蓑岡老人).[2]
He graduated the Chiba Prefecture Teachers' Training Centre (千葉県教員講習所 Chiba-ken Kyōin Kōshū-sho),[2] and for a time worked as a primary school teacher,[3] before resigning in 1908[2] and moving to Tokyo.[3]
He died on 11 August 1927.[1]
