Repatriated
After its charismatic leader Tōge Sankichi died and as the JCP fractured in 1951. Our Poems’ circle and its remarkable journal suffered a decline in idealism and impact. However, this brief, fulfilling and vivid experience with Our Poems circle was sufficient to sustain and fuel Shikoku throughout his life. He met with discrimination as a “red” repatriate as he searched for employment but finally found temporary work at the City Hall, where he would eventually spend his career. Throughout his working life and retirement, Shikoku persisted at every turn in finding ways to put his beliefs, his art, and this framework into practice, and collaborating with other activist artists in Hiroshima.