About Takuboku Ishikawa

He is Japanese poet.
Two floor pillars on the second floor at the time when Takuboku Ishikawa once lived in our restaurant are still left.

Carrying a child and blowing snow
Seeed me off at the stop
Is it my wife’s eyebrows?
(Scene where wife and child see off when leaving for Kushiro)

September 27, 1907
Resigned from Hokumon Shinposha and joined Otaru Nihonsha (monthly salary of 2 yen)
October 2, 1907
Moved to Zentaro Nishizawa (now Tajima) with mother, wife and child
November 6,1907
Moved to 14 Hatake, Hanazono-cho by renting a family
December 12,1907
Decided to leave Otaru Nihonsha
January 13,1908
Decided to join Kushiro Shimbun (monthly salary of 2 yen)
January 19,1908
Departed from Otaru to join Kushiro Shimbun (family remains in Otaru)
April 14,1908
He came to pick up Otaru's family. The length of stay was 6 days. He left Otaru with his family and went to Hakodate's Ikuu Miyazaki brother, and then moved to Tokyo alone.

Takuboku Ishikawa’s
three monuments in Otaru

【Suitengu Taga Shrine】 Feeling sad about the city of Otaru
People in Otaru who don’t compose poems
the lively voice is rough
【Otaru Park】 If there is a job
that I can comfortably throw in and work on,
I will do my best to die
【Otaru Station】 Carrying a child and blowing snow
Seeed me off at the stop
Is it my wife’s eyebrows?

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