Mokichi Saitō
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Mokichi Saitō (Saitō Mokichi 1882 - 1953?) was a Japanese poet of the Taisho period, a member of Araragi school, and a psychiatrist. The novelist Kita Morio is his second son.
Saitō was born in a village now part of Kaminoyama, Yamagata. He studied under Ito Sachio, a writer initiating magazines such as Araragi. By the time of his death, Saitō had written seventeen collections of poems and 17,907 poems.
He was the family doctor of author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and assisted in his suicide.
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