《Dry Grass》

…He dropped out of the English department of Tokyo Senmon Gakko (now Waseda University). In 1905, he published the pastoral poetry collection “Kare Kusa” (Dry Grass), which was the first collection of original folk songs in Japan. After that, he changed jobs many times, and while working at the Otaru Nippo newspaper in Hokkaido, he and his colleague Ishikawa Takuboku started a campaign to expel the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, which resulted in his dismissal. …

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…東京専門学校(現，早大)英文科中退。1905年，田園詩集《枯草》を刊行，日本最初の創作民謡集であった。以後多くの職業を転々とし，北海道の《小樽日報》勤務中，同僚の石川啄木と主筆排斥運動を起こし，首になったこともある。…

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