Anzai Fuyue

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Anzai Fuyue (March 9, 1898 - August 24, 1965) was a Japanese-born poet from the Nara Prefecture of Japan. Early in life he began work in Dalian, China where he developed gangrene and subsequently lost his arm. Fuyue was one of the founding fathers of the magazine Shi To Shiron (or, Poetry and Poetics). Anzai published several anthologies including Gunkan Mari (The Battleship Mari) and Ajia no Kanko (The Asian Salt Lake). Other works by Anzai Fuyue include: Dattan Kaikyô to Chô (Butterflies and the Mongolian Strait, 1947) and Zaseru Tôgyûshi (The Sitting Matador, 1949)