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Today I Discovered The Incredible, Sad Story Of Misuzu Kaneko’s Lost Poems
Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko was a prolific writer who produced hundreds of poems for children in the early 20th century. She became a literary celebrity in Japan in the early 1920s and then, with her untimely death in 1930, her poems and her story were all but lost.