Literary Career
Kinoshita was a co-founder of the Shirakaba ("White Birch") Society, along with Shiga Naoya and MushanokÅji Saneatsu in 1910. He contributed extensively to the society's literary magazine, with elegant tanka verses, written in an easy-to-understand colloquial language. He published numerous anthologies of his verses, including Kogyoku ("Red Ball", 1919) and Ichiro ("One Alley", 1924).
Kinoshita moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture in 1919, as the sea air had a reputation for being good for lung disorders. However, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and died a few years later.
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