sentences:  Mikihiko Nagata
  
  Born in Tokyo, Nagata was the brother of fellow writer Nagata Hideo.Influenced by his brother, and his brother's associates Kitahara Hakushū and Yoshii Isamu, he also turned to poetry and literature as a career, He contributed to the literary journal "Myōjō" and "Subaru" while still a student at Waseda University, but left university without graduating and went to Hokkaido to work as a laborer at coal mines and at railroad construction sites.