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RECUPERATION LITERATURE AND HAKYO ISHIDA

  Even when world warIIhas ended a difficult situation on 
people's life still remaind, residence at temporary shelter,
food shortage, continual electricity failure.
  Under the such poor circumstances, people were suffering 
from tuberculosis attributed by fatique and malnutrition in 
the wartime. It can be said that the disease was baptism of 
fire which everybody from youth to manhood regardless sex 
have to undergo.
  There were no mediscen, and the only they can do was to 
extract a focus. People struggled the disease by enduring 
pain on the bed.
  A short form of literature such as poem, Tanka, Haiku and 
radio program on recuperative mentaly support for those 
people. Many poets were inflicted the life of struggling 
disease and this situation produced poets.
  Hakyo Ishida held the top possition in Haiku world. He 
became promissing standardbarner of the literary world in 
his early age.
  Whill fighting at the front in the continent he got sick 
and his struggling for disease lingered even after the war.
　His works were complied as poet anthology Sekimei(Dearest
Life) and Kyogyohen(Chest Variation), which mostoly written
Kiyose Sanatrium and gave us ray of light to live. His works
were very popular among poets in that fild in that time. 

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