Takuboku Ishikawa itu apa sih?

adalah seorang penyair asal Jepang. Ia wafat akibat tuberkulosis. Dikenal sebagai tanka dan penyair  atau , ia mula-mula menjadi anggota kelompok penyair naturalis Myōjō namun kemudian masuk kelompok penyair Jepang "sosialistik" dan meninggalkan naturalisme.

Ishikawa Takuboku, Romaji Diary and Sad Toys, translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1985.

Ishikawa Takuboku, Takuboku: Poems to Eat, translated by Carl Sesar, Tokyo. Kodansha International, 1966.

Ueda, Makoto, Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press © 1983  [Ishikawa Takuboku is one of the eight poets profiled in the book, with forty two pages devoted to him. There are nine "free-style" poems and thirty one tanka included in the commentary.]