Shuntaro Tanikawa was well-known for his 1952 debut work ‘Two Billion Light Years of Solitude’
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92., died Nov. 13, his son Kensaku Tanikawa said Tuesday. The cause of death, at a Tokyo hospital, was old age., a bold look at the cosmic in daily life, sensual, vivid but simple in its use of everyday language.
He also translated Mother Goose, Maurice Sendak and Leo Lionni. Tanikawa has in turn been widely translated, including English, Chinese and various European languages. Tanikawa was born in 1931, a son of philosopher Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with the famous poets of that era, like Makoto Ooka and Shuji Terayama.
His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse approach that went on to innovate and define Japanese contemporary poetics.
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