sentences:  After Ikuma's return to Japan in 1910, he joined the "Shirakaba" literary circle and participated in production of the first issue their literary magazine.He published new-style poems and short stories in the magazine, and used it as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public.In 1913, he published his first short story anthology, "Kōmori no gotoku" ("Like a Bat"), in which he exhibits a harmony between his intuition as a painter and his sensitivity as a poet.