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The other day, when I visited Oma-cho, Aomori Prefecture, which is famous for tuna fishing, a monument to Takuboku Ishikawa was built.

There are three songs on the stone monument.

It is said that "Tokai Kojima in the song describes Bentenjima floating off Omazaki. poetry monument was built in a place where Bentenjima could be seen."

"Let's stop dying with more than a hundred large letters on the sand and come back."
"I'm caught by the white sand of the shores of Kojima in Tokai, and I'm caught with crabs."
"If you cry one person seventy-eight days in the ocean, you will come out of the house."

What a dark song? I thought, "Oh, here is Takuboku Ishikawa. Isn't it a connection to Chuo-ku, who worked as a proofreader of the Asahi Shimbun at that time? "

Simple I thought only "lucky", but the world is not so simple.

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By the way, speaking of Takuboku Ishikawa, many of you know, but Takuboku poetry monument is built on Ginza Namiki-dori St.

Takuboku Ishikawa worked for the Asahi Shimbun in Takiyama-cho for about three years from April 1909 until he died at the age of 27. During this time, he was protected by the kindness and kindness of Asahi's boss and colleagues, including editor-in-chief Shinichi Sato, and the songbook "One Handful of Sand".
He wrote many masterpieces such as the "Sad Toy" poem collection "Yokoko and Whistle", singing the sorrow and joy of the lives of the common people and criticizing the current state of the obstruction of the times. It is said that the people of Ginza built poetry monument on the site of the Asahi Shimbun to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Takuboku's death.

What do you imagine when you hear Takuboku Ishikawa?
I am
・Work, work, work, and work, my life (living) is easy to see your hands.
　Poetry such as making an accent with hometown and going to listen to it in the crowd at the station.
・He is weak and has a lot of debt and poor life, early life at the age of 26.
・A person who finds talent early and receives support from many people, such as his personal connections during Morioka Junior High School.

From such a small amount of knowledge, I had the impression that I was a person who was full of talent and lived seriously, but had a weak body and had a historical background.

I think it was the right part, but on the other hand
・He spends money on play without regard to his wife and children and borrows a lot of debts, and frequently cried money from friends and acquaintances because of his poor life.
・In a letter to a friend, Ariake Kanbara was described as `` an arrogant who is too much to eat, but it is easy to deceive, '' and crying Usuda and Tetsumi Yosano as `` an illustrator of the times ''. In addition to insulting the writer who was influenced or taken care of himself, despite maintaining his life with the help of his friends, "I'm inferior to me even once and death."
・In the "Roman Diary", he spells out a story that would be banned in Roman letters naked.

It seems that there is no shortage of episodes such as "I'm a genius, but as a person."

Of course, it's common that the dignity of literature does not match the author's personality, and it's a story that a writer who has never committed a murder (although it is natural) creates a wonderful murder mystery novel.

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Well, why isn't the monument at the beginning so simple?

The posted song is a song made on the night of June 23, 1908 (Ming 41), that is, the morning of the 24th.
Takuboku starts singing and stops from around midnight on the 24th to around 11:00 noon. I write and write, and except for the time when I took a walk at dawn, I continue to make 113 necks. The next day, on the 25th, "I'm stinging my head. No matter what you see or hear, everyone is a song. "(Diary), and I will make 141 heads by 2:00 am on the 26th. There are a total of 254 necks.

Takuboku Ishikawa
・Even in Iwate Prefecture, he grew up in the inland area (now Shibumin, Tamayama-ku, Morioka City), so he did not know the exact meaning of "Iso = a place with lots of rocks and stones" in the sense of "Iso = sea and lakes".

・He has worked at Hakodate, but he may have never been to Oma (no clear record).

・It is a song that seems to have been written at home during the poor life, and many songs at this time are fantasy, strange, grotesque, or romantic, and `` Let's cry for 7 or 8 days '' Exaggerate. He exaggerated the experience he wanted to go to a place where there were no people and cry as much as he wanted to cry because he did not want to stay in a "house" or even cry at home.

There are various interpretations, such as whether it is related to Oma or whether it sang Bentenjima, there seems to be discussion.

In any case, it would have been an adult that left a great influence on future generations, and the "contact point" itself that could be interpreted from Takuboku's song was sold.