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Jūkichi Yagi

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A Face

Isn’t there a face somewhere
that really pleases me?
Were I to pass briskly through that face
I think there would be a truly good world.

© Translation: 2008, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura

A FACE

From: Kanashiki Shinto (Poor Believers)
Publisher: Nogikusha, Tokyo

Jūkichi Yagi

Jūkichi Yagi

(Japan, 1898 - 1927)

Jūkichi Yagi was born in 1898 in the outskirts of Tokyo as the second son of a farmer's family. While in high school, Jūkichi started reading the Bible and soon became a devout Christian. Upon graduating the Tokyo High Normal School at the age of 23, he was assigned to another Normal School in Hyogo Prefecture as an English teacher. It was there that Jūkichi started writing poetry prolifically...

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A Face

Isn’t there a face somewhere
that really pleases me?
Were I to pass briskly through that face
I think there would be a truly good world.

© 2008, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura
From: Kanashiki Shinto (Poor Believers)

A Face

Isn’t there a face somewhere
that really pleases me?
Were I to pass briskly through that face
I think there would be a truly good world.

© 2008, William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura

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