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Japan Times 2015年4月11日
BY ROGER PULVERS（ロジャーパルバース）
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
The society of Takuboku Ishikawa’s era was in dramatic political flux, and its complex issues became his personal obsessions. After his death, Takuboku’s preoccupations came to be seen as a symbol of the social and emotional upheavals of his times.
The key word in the last two decades of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) was “polemics.” Intellectuals and socially conscious people were actively involved in a nationwide discourse, played out in all aspects of the culture ― literature, theater, graphic arts, journalism ― as to what the nature of future Japanese society should be.
“Labor”
However long I work
Life remains a trial.
I just stare into my palms.
はたらけど
はたらけど猶わが生活楽にならざり
ぢっと手を見る
“Revolution”:
Nothing seems to disconcert my wife and friends
More than my going on about revolution
Even when struck down by illness.
友も妻もかなしと思ふらし――
病みても猶、
革命のこと口に絶たねば。
“The Patient”
One push of the door, a single step
And the corridor seems to stretch
As far as the eye can see.
ドア推してひと足出れば、
病人の目にはてもなき
長廊下かな。
（2015-04-11 ジャパンタイムス）
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