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Kaneko was raised by her mother and grandmother after her father died when she was three. Kaneko's mother ran a bookstore and felt strongly about reading and education. While most
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In Nagato City, Nagato
Furusato Melody is played as evening chimes in five districts of the city. Furusato Melody is a poem by Misuzu Kaneko, to which Yoshinao Nakata added the melody and the subtitle "Iiko wa tobeteru no yo" (A good child can fly), in accordance with the grant of "Furusato Souzou
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and contracted a venereal disease, which he passed on to Kaneko, causing her lifelong physical pain. He also forced her to stop writing, while putting the family through the strain of four moves within two years to pursue failing business ventures. She finally
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the diaries in which she had copied out her poems, most unpublished during her lifetime. Yazaki now serves as the director of the Kaneko Misuzu
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seventeen, attending the Ōtsu High School for Girls. She was described by others as gentle, cheerful, and an excellent student, as well as a voracious reader with strong curiosity about nature.
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The entire collection of 512 poems has since been published by JULA Publishing Bureau in a six-volume anthology, and in 2016, an
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