Although Fukushima-based poet Ryoichi Wago missed out on winning a U.S. translation award for his work in October, he is ...

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17 as the 2017 winner of the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature in poetry. Angles won the prize—comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize—for his book of Japanese-language poetry "Watashi no ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

These poems were published in Japan in late 19th century. They are printed on continuous stream of paper (the paper is folded and handsewn) and are created from woodblock prints. They were left to ...

New to 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and, to mark the 93rd birthday of Japan’s greatest living poet [b.15.12.1931], he selects Shuntaro Tanikawa - A Poet's Japan.

a literary translator who is currently translating all the poems from the "Manyoshu" into English. 02:24 Many poems in the "Manyoshu" describe the plight of people at the mercy of the powerful ...

TOKYO – Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan’s most popular poet for more than half a century, died in Tokyo on Nov 13, at age 92. His stark and whimsical poems, blending humour with melancholy ...