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This paper focuses on the activities of the Japanese-language poetry community in Korea from the late 1920s to the 1930s. It specifically analyses the two volumes of Chosen Poetry Collection published by Nakamura Gyoharin in 1928 and 1929 following Uchino Kenji’s deportation to Japan, and the Anthology of Chosen Poets published by the Chosen Poet Association in 1933. Through these analyses, the paper meticulously traces the shift in leadership within the Chosen poetry community from Uchino Kenji to the poet Sato Kiyoshi, a professor at Keijō Imperial University, and subsequently to Sugimoto Takeo and his fellow poets. Sugimoto and his colleagues played a pivotal role in the Japanese-language poetry scene in Korea up until the late Japanese colonial period in the 1940s. The discovery of Anthology of Chosen Poets as a new source revealed that dozens of poetry-focused magazines were published in Korea around the 1930s, shedding light on the era. The paper aims to further investigate the representation of poetry and the essence of the pursuit of a uniquely Korean poetic identity in future studies.