Shinkichi Takahashi
Shinkichi Takahashi was a Japanese poet. He was one of the pioneers of Dadaism in Japan. According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature.
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Shinkichi Takahashi

『現代日本詩人全集: 全詩集大成 第12巻』東京創元社、1954年4月15日 · Public domain
- Born
- 1901 · Shikoku.
- Died
- 1987
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shinkichi Takahashi was a Japanese poet. He was one of the pioneers of Dadaism in Japan. According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature.
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He was born on Shikoku. His Collected Poems won the Japanese Ministry of Education Prize for Art.
• Dadaist Shinkichi's Poetry 1923 • Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi Translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 2000 • After Images: Zen Poems by Shinkichi Takahashi Translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972 • (verse) • Spanish translation: En la quietud del mundo. Translated by José Luis Fernández Castillo and Kyoko Mizoguchi. Madrid, Pre-textos, 2018.
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- 1.Hitachi Solutions Business. Takahashi Shinkichi. Sekai daihyakka jiten.
- 2.Makoto Ueda Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature p.335 Stanford University Press, 1983
- 3.Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 1977
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