Shinkichi Takahashi (高橋 新吉 , Takahashi Shinkichi , 1901 – 1987) was a Japanese poet. He was one of the pioneers of Dadaism in Japan.[ 1] According to Makoto Ueda , he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature .[ 2]
He was born on Shikoku .
His Collected Poems won the Japanese Ministry of Education Prize for Art.[ 3]
Works
Dadaist Shinkichi's Poetry 1923[ 3]
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
Halbur, Adam. Seascape . (verse)
Spanish translation: En la quietud del mundo . Translated by José Luis Fernández Castillo and Kyoko Mizoguchi. Madrid, Pre-textos, 2018.
Notes
^ "Takahashi Shinkichi" . Sekai daihyakka jiten (in Japanese). Hitachi Solutions Business. Retrieved 3 May 2014 .
^ Makoto Ueda Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature p.335 Stanford University Press, 1983
^ a b Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 1977
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