#Ishikawa Takuboku

[creatinganewwlife]

When Dostoevsky wrote "I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself"

and Ishikawa Takuboku wrote "just for once i want a love that feels like plunging my flushed cheeks into deep soft snow.”

and Warsan Shire wrote "Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men - they come with keys, and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers"

[exhaled-spirals]

— "Carrying mother on my back," by Ishikawa Takuboku (1886 – 1912)

[vulnerableagendaofdeath]

when Dostoyevsky wrote "I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself"

and Ishikawa Takuboku wrote "just for once i want a love that feels like plunging my flushed cheeks into deep soft snow"

and Warsan Shire wrote "mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. sometimes the men - they come with keys, and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers".

[a-book-scarfing-goblin]

I like to think this official of art of the crime trio ( looking at Ryōunkaku ) is a reference to Woodpecker Detective Office which is another novel/anime series about fictionalized authors solving mysteries

[carmi1la]

[velvetbyrne]

Final book haul of the year, I am broke.

List (left to right):

Woodpecker Detective's Office by Ii Kei

Politicians of the Bakumatsu Era by Fukuchi Ōchi

Criticism of Theatre by Miki Takeji (Mori Ōgai's little brother)

Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu

Vita Sexualis by Mori Ōgai

Tsuboi Sakae's book of Fairy Tales by Tsuboi Sakae

Akai Tori Collection by Various Authors

A Day with Cats by Osaragi Jirō

Lemon by Kajii Motojirō

The Bird's Nest by Suzuki Miekichi

Higuchi Ichiyō Novel Collection by Higuchi Ichiyō

The Black Lizard by Hirotsu Ryūrō

Otōto by Kōda Aya

A Room of Sweet Honey by Mori Mari

The Golden Demon by Ozaki Kōyō

Saitō Mokichi's Poetry Collection by Saitō Mokichi

Takuboku's Poetry Collection by Ishikawa Takuboku

Wakayama Bokusui's Poetry Collection by Wakayama Bokusui

Kusano Shinpei's Poetry Collection by Kusano Shinpei

Miya Shūji's Poetry Collection by Miya Shūji

Hagiwara Sakutarō's Poetry Collection by Hagiwara Sakutarō

Tachihara Michizō's Poetry Collection by Tachihara Michizō

[dailykawa]

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Did Hijikata and Sugimoto's group just not question the disappearance of Vasily and Ogata as they got on the train to Hakodate?

Sadly...

...as far as we know the answer is yes.

As far as I can remember, the manga didn’t really show scenes of people searching for Vasily or worried about his whereabouts. We don’t even know if hey just assumed he would somehow tail them or forgot he existed.

Poor Vasily instead was likely clueless of their whereabouts but figured if he followed the 7th they would lead him to destination... which works SOLELY because:

1) Asirpa has an idea the gold might be buried near Hakodate and therefore climbed on a train directed there. Otherwise Asirpa might have remained in Sapporo until she figured out the star shape meant Goryokaku.

2) Those men weren’t sent back to Asahikawa but were sent to the gold location, which was the same place Asirpa’s group was meant to reach. Not that Vasily knows.

So yeah, although they suspect they’re about to have a final fight with Tsurumi’s forces and even ask for Sofia’s help, they forgot behind their talented sniper.

In regard to Ogata though, credits when it’s due, Hijikata and Sugimoto's group might not have known Ogata was at the Sapporo Brewery... because the only one who saw Ogata was Vasily.

I would have said not even Kadokura might have caught a glimpse of him as although it’s true Ogata appeared while Usami was harrassing Kadokura, the layout of the place is pretty unclear and the same goes for what happens to Kadokura.

When Usami tells Kadokura to ‘hold on’ the door seems pretty far from him. However when Ogata appears Usami is next to it and Kadokura is nowhere in sight.

We can speculate that Usami, hearing Ogata running up the stairs, has actually moved away, leaving Kadokura alone, thinking he won’t manage to escape, has moved in another room, placed behind the opening and waited for Ogata there. We can see, after all, that there’s an opening leading to a corridor on which doors open in the room in which Usmai and Ogata fight.

According to the volume version it’s not even the only corridor that opens on that room.

So yeah, maybe Kadokura was in another room and never saw Ogata, he just caught his chance to escape as soon as Usami left and Ogata, not knowing Kadokura was there, did nothing about it either.

What’s more... OGATA WASN’T SUPPOSED TO KNOW OSTROG WOULD BE IN THE AREA AROUND THE BREWERY... nor care about it if his goal was to take out Asirpa... which wouldn’t help him at all to get the gold and therefore the chance to climb in ranks he supposedly longed for but whatever, Ogata’s actions mostly stopped to make sense in the last arc.

To reiterate with how Ogata wasn’t supposed to be there, we should remember Ishikawa realized Ostrog would be around the brewery only in chap 247/248 and managed to pass the information to Hijikata and Co.

The 7th division got wind of it when Usami overheard Ishikawa saying he figured out and attacked him. Escaping, instead than eating the map or keeping it with himself, Ishikawa ripped it into pieces and let it drop on the dark street... and somehow Usami was capable to find all the pieces and piece them together, discovering the location because Ishikawa conveniently marked it.

But how did Ogata find out?

Supposedly we should assume he waited up until than day then tailed them out without noticing Vasily (Ogata will only discover Vasily exists when the latter will break his rifle) nor being noticed by him (even though Vasily was out for his skin), nor deciding to snipe them one of the previous days (he had no idea Vasily was guarding the place so he could have done it) or while they were moving to get there or while they were there, decide to find a sniping/observation spot when they’re around the brewery but continue not to snipe them, decide to try to snipe Asirpa only when he’ll figure Kikuta and Usami might bring her to Tsurumi and be stopped by Vasily.

Basically it’s not really logic behaviour and why I say Ogata is useless in the story since none of his actions affect the plot relevantly.

But okay, the group might have not questioned Ogata’s disappearance beyond the ‘Ogata should have figured out Sugimoto and Asirpa joined forces with Hijikata and revealed he killed Wilk so he figured he wouldn’t be welcomed in Hijikata’s group anymore and left on his own’ because they had no idea he was around the brewery too.

Maybe they even hope he remained in Sapporo as he supposedly should have no idea they moved to Hakodate and this too should have been the case.

In fact we see Ogata noticing Kadokura and Kirawus before Asirpa contacted Hijikata claiming she has figured out how to recognize the fake skins.

Now, you might say, maybe Ogata followed Kirawus and Kadokura... but no, Kadokura and Kirawus had remained behind and then Kantarou and Toni Anji went to retrieve them and they reached the station ON HORSES.

By foot Ogata shouldn’t have been able to follow them unless they started shouting around they were going to Hakodate. So Ogata’s only choice to figure out the group was going at Hakodate was to notice Sofia, assume she was travelling toward were Asirpa was and tail after her and her men without being noticed.

Well, credits when it’s due, Sofia and her men standing on top of a train shooting are quite a sight worth attracting attention. I hope they, at least, had gotten on the train discreetly, otherwise Tsurumi didn’t need to solve the code, he could have just tailed after the noisy bunch of Russians whom he knew were Asirpa’s allies.

So yes, they forgot Vasily and might have had good reasons to assume they would leave Ogata behind.

Thank you for your ask!

[ochoislas]

20 de julio de 1908

Saqué mis viejos diarios y estuve un rato leyéndolos en la cama. Apenas habría leído diez líneas como mucho y me sentí tan ahogado de congoja que arrojé el cuaderno y cerré los ojos. No podía imaginar nada más triste. Seguí leyendo, rompí a llorar y tras calmarme, continué de nuevo. Me dije que no podía seguir con aquello y, levantándome, me senté ante el escritorio. Mi mente no tardó mucho en fundirse. Dejé la pluma, volví a la cama y retomé la lectura del diario. Tras repetir el mismo proceso no sé cuantas veces, advertí que había oscurecido.

Tengo un cuerpo, una mente, pero ni idea de qué hacer conmigo mismo. Siento que paso demasiado tiempo jugando con la idea de la muerte, así que procuro con todas mis fuerzas no escuchar sus susurros. Pero en ocasiones, no puedo precisar cuándo, vuelvo a escuchar su blando rumor tras mis oídos. No he intentado nada tan drástico como tomar disposiciones para suicidarme, pero es como si el único momento en que estoy de verdad en paz con el mundo es cuando escucho los susurros de la muerte.

Ishikawa Takuboku

[raeiyyn]

on silence

1. mieko shiomi, music for two players, 1963 (via @neo-catharsis ) 2. via @minuty 3. safia elhillo, "girls that never die: poems; geneva" 4. blue, 2002, dir. hiroshi ando 5. hélène cixous, "selected plays of hélène cixous: portrait of dora" 6. car sear headrest, 1937 state park (via @oozins ) 7. helena c moon 8. via pinterest 9. takuboku ishikawa, "romaji diary and sad toys"

[apoemaday]

Untitled

by Takuboku Ishikawa

I’ve worked harder than the hardest, Yet I’m no better off; I only look down at my bony hands.

[terracemuse]

[incorrect-kttk-quotes]

Ishikawa: Can I bother you for a second?

Yoshii: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.

[velvetbyrne]

"If I say that at least once more we should meet before we die, will you nod in response?"

— Ishikawa Takuboku

[dailykawa]

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