About Kyōzō Takagi
Lived 1903 – 1987 (aged 84). Kyōzō Takagi was a Japanese poet, physician and journalist.
Takagi Kyozo (; October 12, 1903 – October 23, 1987) was a Japanese poet who wrote in the Tsugaru dialect and an ophthalmologist.
His nephew is crime fiction writer Akimitsu Takagi.
He was born in Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He worked briefly as a substitute teacher and later news reporter. He eventually became an ophthalmologist and opened his own clinic in Hirosaki.
October 23 is celebrated in Japan as "Tsugaru dialect day" in honor of the anniversary of his death. There is also a monument dedicated to him with an except from a Marmelo poem in Hirosaki.
Biography Marmelo (1931) My Requiem (1935) The Descendant of Crows (1939) Fengtien Castle and its Neighborhood (1940) Homecoming (1969), a play
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Who was Kyōzō Takagi?
Japanese poet
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Kyōzō Takagi was born on 12 October 1903 in Aomori.
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Kyōzō Takagi died on 23 October 1987.
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Kyōzō Takagi was a poet, physician and journalist.
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Kyōzō Takagi was Japanese.
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