As evidence may I not cite a Japanese poem, paraphrased, I think, fairly closely in language, and, I believe, perfectly as to sentiment? It was translated for me by a Japanese friend, who ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

When you picture a timeline of Japanese ... writing is significant because the presentation looks different. For example, novelist and poet Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) recites in his poem ...

A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in literature, Tanikawa was a revered figure in Japan. Read more at straitstimes ...

“For me, the Japanese language is the ground ... a son of philosopher Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with the famous poets of that era, like Makoto Ooka ...

“For me, the Japanese language is the ground ... a son of philosopher Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with the famous poets of that era, like Makoto Ooka ...