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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Yone Noguchi, Mori gai, Nakahama Manjir, Inuhiko Yomota, Sh mei kawa, Yumiko Kurahashi, Hiroaki Sato, Jun Ishikawa, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Junzabur Nishiwaki, Kambara Ariake, Yuasa Yoshiko, Mari Yonehara, Michio Takeyama, Arakaki Seish, Hideo Levy, Jinzai Kiyoshi, Yukie Chiri, Ikuma Arishima, Horiguchi Daigaku, Ken'ichi Yoshida, Morita S hei, Hirotsu Kazuo, Hidemi Kon, Yoshio K saku, mi Komaki, Tatsuo Hori, Saiichi Maruya, Hajime Nakamura, Nobori Shomu, Princess Hitachi, Ozaki Kihachi, Toshihiko Izutsu, Murai Shimako, Suehiro Tanemura, Masami Fukushima, Sugita Genpaku, Ikezawa Natsuki, K ji Nakano, Shozo Yoshigami, Katsuragawa Hosh, Haruki Makio. Excerpt: Yone Noguchi, or Yonejir Noguchi, born / Noguchi Yonejir (December 8, 1875 - July 13, 1947), was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi was born in the town of Tsushima, near Nagoya. He attended Keio University but left before graduating to travel to San Francisco in 1893. There, Noguchi joined a newspaper run by Japanese exiles associated with the Freedom and People's Rights Movement and worked as a domestic servant. He spent some months studying at a preparatory school for Stanford and working as a journalist before determining, after a visit to the Oakland hillside home of Joaquin Miller, his true vocation of poet. Miller welcomed and encouraged Noguchi and introduced him to other San Francisco Bay area bohemians, including Gelett Burgess (who published Noguchi's first verses in his magazine, The Lark), Ina Coolbrith, Edwin Markham, Adeline Knapp, Blanche Partington, and Charles Warren Stoddard. Noguchi weathered a plagiarism scandal in 1896 to publish two books of poetry in 1897, and remained an important fixture of the...
