Love, Beauty, Life

About This Novel

Ishikawa Takuboku's three-line short songs have unique descriptions of daily life, changes in the seasons, relatives, friends, children, rural customs, etc., And record the gains and losses in life with delicate and sensitive thoughts. As a poet who died of illness at a young age and made a brief appearance in the literary world, Ishikawa Takuboku's poems show irreplaceable value in terms of both his creative level and his understanding of life beyond the times. This book comprehensively collects Ishikawa Takuboku's poetry works, including two tanka collections by Ishikawa Takuboku. "A Grip of Sand" contains 551 tanka songs, and "Sad Toy" contains 194 tanka songs. These two collections of songs sincerely record the poet's sorrow and sighs in his life of poverty and illness, as well as his thoughts on the real world. Ishikawa Takuboku has included in the book one by one the trivial things that a person encountered in his youth, some happy and expectant moods, eagerness to try, the days of love and breakup, the time when he disliked life and work, worries about illness, missing his family, and feeling happy or unhappy because of the flowers and trees in the city. So today when we read his poems, almost every one of them can impress us.

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