Shigin
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Shigin is a performance of reciting a Japanese poem or a Chinese poem read in Japanese, each poem usually chanted by an individual or in a group. Reciting can be done loudly before a large audience, s
Example gin with vocal annotation to the right of each character, Shān xíng, is poetry from Chinese poet Du Mu (9th century)
Takuboku Ishikawa
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Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" or "free-style" poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic
Shigin
…among the youth and around the world. Some of their songs contain a section of shigin. The example below is a tanka about Mount Iwate by Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa (1886 – 1912, ja:石川啄木#代表歌), with Japanese pronunciation shown in parentheses The second example is a Kanshi poem by Japanese educator Hirose Tansō (1782…
Takuboku Ishikawa
Takuboku Ishikawa and his wife Setsuko after their engagement in 1904
Friend Kyōsuke Kindaichi (left) and Takuboku Ishikawa (right) in 1908