Background
Akahiko Shimaki was born on December 16, 1876 in Nagano, Japan.
赤彦 島木
Akahiko Shimaki was born on December 16, 1876 in Nagano, Japan.
After graduating from the Nagano Normal School, Akahiko Shimaki studied waka composition under Sachio Ito. He edited Araragi after he went to Tokyo (1913). His was a powerful poetry of a grand style which was influenced by the realism of Sachio and Shiki Masaoka and Manyoshu Anthology.