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Tōge Sankichi was born in Japan in and was the most public and politicized of the early.

Tōge Sankichi was born in Japan in and was the most public and politicized of the early Hiroshima poets..

Sankichi Tōge

Japanese poet

Sankichi Tōge (峠三吉, Tōge Sankichi, 19 February 1917 – 10 March 1953), born Mitsuyoshi Tōge, was a Japanese poet, activist, and survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

He is best known for his collection of poems Genbaku Shishu ("Poems of the Atomic Bomb"), published in 1951.

Early life and education

Mitsuyoshi Tōge, later known as Sankichi Tōge, was born on 19 February^{[citation needed]} 1917 in Osaka,^[1] the youngest son of Ki'ichi Tōge, a successful manufacturer of bricks.

From the start Tōge was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and periodic vomiting.^{[citation needed]}

His family was politically radical, with two siblings official members of the Communist Party and all of the children having been arrested at least once; however, Tōge did not become involved in politics at this time.^[2]

He graduated from Hiroshima Prefecture's School of Commerce in 1935 and started working for the Hir