a sense of oppression. He also found himself sleeping more often and suffering from a low-grade fever. His doctor ordered rest, yet Michizō set off on a long trip to northern Honshū and Nagasaki. In December 1938 he arrived in Nagasaki exhausted, and admitted himself to a hospital where he began coughing up huge amounts of blood. He returned to Tokyo where doctors ordered continual rest; however, tuberculosis had already begun to affect other vital organs. He entered a Tokyo sanatorium. By 29 March 1939 his illness had completely taken over and he died. References Robert Epp and Iida Gakuji, translators and compilers, Of Dawn, Of Dusk—The Poetry of Tachihara Michizô (Los Angeles, CA: Yakusha, 2001), 464 pages. External links 1914 births 1939 deaths Writers from Tokyo 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Japan 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Buddhists Japanese Buddhists