commit suicide in protest. After bathing Fusae and sharing a sakuramochi, Kaneko wrote a letter to her husband asking that he let her mother raise the girl instead, and overdosed on sedatives, dying the next day, only a month before her 27th birthday. Her daughter was ultimately raised by the grandmother. Representative works include "Me and Little Birds and Bells" and "Big Fishing". "Me and Little Birds and Bells" Even if I spread my arms I cannot fly in the sky at all. But the bird that can fly Cannot run on the ground as fast as I. Even if I shake my body, I cannot produce pretty sounds, But the bell that can ring Doesn’t know as many songs as I. The bell and the bird and I– All are different and all are good. This poem is for education and is also used in elementary school Other than that Shall we go to Kodama? snow Stars and dandelions Dew mosquito net Dream selling "Cocoon And Grave" <poem>[6] A silkworm enters its cocoon—— that tight, uncomfortable cocoon. But the silkworm must be happy; it will become a butterfly and fly away. A person enters a grave—— that dark, lonely grave. But the good person will grow wings, become an angel and fly away. From Are You an Echo? Rediscovery of Kaneko's poems Although she received praise for her published poems during her life, Kaneko's work descended into obscurity during the years of World War II In 1966, a 19-year-old Japanese aspiring poet named Setsuo Yazaki discovered her poem "Big Catch" in an old book. Eager to know more about the author, he spent sixteen years trying to track her down. In 1982 he was able to get in touch with Kaneko's younger brother, now 77 years old, who still had the diaries in which she had copied out her poems, most unpublished during her lifetime. Yazaki now serves as the director of the Kaneko Misuzu Memorial Museum, which was opened in 2003 on the site of Kaneko's childhood home. The entire collection of 512 poems has since been published by JULA Publishing Bureau in a six-volume anthology, and in 2016, an English-language edition of her poetry Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko was released by the independent book publisher Chin Music Press. It received an Honorable Mention in the Freeman Awards 2016. "Are You an