Kōsaku Takii

In 1909, at age 15, he met haiku poet Kawahigashi Hekigotō and decided to devote his life to poetry.

He moved to Tokyo in 1914, where he worked as editor of the haiku magazine Kaikō (Sea Crimson), and was an occasional student at Waseda University.

His celebrated novel, Mugen Hōyō (The Infinite Embrace), written as four stories in the years 1921-1924, recounts their relationship.

In 1930 he struck off with his second wife for Hachiōji, her home town, and during World War II worked for the army.

Takii died of kidney failure and is buried in the Daiyu-ji Temple Cemetery in Takayama, Gifu.