for your spirit,/ you must put a nameplate for yourself / Ishigaki Rin / that's good for me." Later she wrote in an afterword of one of her books, "I was born to create one work, Nameplate." Works Poetry books 私の前にある鍋とお釜と燃える火と, 1959. 1st book: The Pan, the Pot, the Burning Fire I Have in Front of Me 表札など, 1968. 2nd book: Nameplate and other works 略歴, 1979. 3rd book: Curriculum Vitae やさしい言葉, 1984. 4th book: Tender words External links Janine Beichman's translation of "Nameplates" Poetry International Web-Rin Ishigaki References 1920 births 2004 deaths People from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese women writers Japanese women poets Clerks