Background
Rogetsu Ishii was born in 1873.
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Rogetsu Ishii was born in 1873.
Rogetsu Ishii left the Akita middle school without graduating and went to Tokyo (1893). Studied haiku under Shiki Masaoka.
After his studies was on the editorial staff of Shonihon. Rogetsu Ishii passed a national examination for doctors, began practicing and at the same time edited and published a haiku poetry magazine.
Rogetsu Ishii was of a pedantic nature and wrote in Chinese characters.