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Ishikawa Nobuo
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ISHIKAWA, Nobuo
 ( 1908 - 1964 )

He was born in Saitama, Japan on June 16, 1908.
From the early stage of his junior jigh school days, he began to write tanka poems,
In 1929, he entered Waseda Universuty and studied Economics, but he dropped out the university in 1933.
His literary activities including translations of foreign poems as well as writing tanka have been continued during these period till the end of his life.
In 1937, he joined Bungeishinjusha a publishing company, and worked as an editorial staff.
In 1940, he joined the army as a reporter and also as a special correspondent of Bungeishinjusha.
In 1947, he worked for U.S. Jonson Base as a teacher of Japanese, and resigned there in 1950, and then, he has been a freelance interpreter.
On July 9, 1964 he died of cerebral hemorrhage in the hospital.

Publication
"Esprit" 1930,
Translations of verses by Cocteau Jacob and Sandburg in 1935.
"Cinema" in 1936,
"Swimming Athlete" in 1938,
"Hogaboh" (A serues if short stories) 1940
"Orange" in 1946
"Taihakkoh" in 1954
"Puppeteer" (translation) in 1956
Moon World Colony" (translation in 1956
"Canned Byway" (translation) 14956
!Green Hill on the Earth" (translation) 1957
etc., etc.


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