His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse ...

“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 ...

Tanikawa Shuntaro -- a renowned Japanese poet who used his keen sense ... Born in 1931 in Tokyo, Tanikawa began writing poetry when he was a high school student. He shot to fame in 1952 when ...

“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 ...