a central figure in the running of the magazine. Miyoshi courted the sister of Hagiwara Sakutaro, Hagiwara Ai, but they were unable to get married due to the opposition of her parents. From 1944-1949, Miyoshi relocated to Mikuni, Fukui. In June 1946, he published in the magazine Shinchō the first part of an essay in which he called for Emperor Showa's abdication and, in very harsh terms, accused him of being not only "primary responsible for the defeat" but "bearing responsibility for having been extremely negligent in the performance of his duties". Miyoshi’s output was steady and varied for the rest of his long career. Aside from free verse anthologies, such as Nansoshu (“From a Southern Window”) and Rakuda no kobu ni matagatte (“On a Camel's Hump”), which won the Yomiuri Literary Prize, he also wrote literary criticism of verse, Fuei junikagetsu and Takujo no hana (“Flowers on a Table”), a collection of essays, Yoru tantan, and a major critique of fellow poet, Hagiwara Sakutarō. Legacy Miyoshi died in 1964 of a heart attack. His grave is at the temple of Honcho-ji in Takatsuki, Osaka, where his nephew was chief priest. In the year 2004, the city of Osaka established the Miyoshi Tatsuji Award, for the best outstanding anthology of poetry published nationwide. The prize money was set at 1 million yen. Yōko Hagiwara wrote a book about Miyoshi's romance with Ai Hagiwara in 1966. It was titled . It was adapted into a film in 2022. See also Japanese literature List of Japanese authors References Kirkup, James & Davis, A.R. Modern Japanese Poetry. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4 (August 1980), pp. 817–819 Ishihara, Tatsuka. Rakuda no kobu ni matagatte: Miyoshi Tatsuji den. Shinchosha (Japanese) Notes 1900 births 1964 deaths Writers from Osaka Japanese essayists Japanese literary critics University of Tokyo alumni Literary editors 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century essayists Imperial Japanese Army personnel