Kitahara Hakushu

Historical Figure
Kitahara Ryūkichi, or better known under his pen-name Kitahara Hakushū, was a Japanese poet born in 1885. He is regarded as one of the most popular and imoprtant poets in modern Japanese literature. Kitahara published over 200 books in his lifetime. One of his works was the six-volume series "Nihon Densho Doyo Shusei" (Collection of Traditional Japanese Nursery Rhymes) was one of his works. Kitahara died on November 2, 1942.