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Award-Winning Japanese Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa Dies at 92; Also Translated Mother Goose, ‘Peanuts’ Over Long Career (UPDATE 1)

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Yomiuri Shimbun

16:01 JST, November 19, 2024

Modern Japanese poet and translator Shuntaro Tanikawa, known for such gentle, approachable poems as “Nijuoku Konen no Kodoku” (Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude) and “Asa no Rire” (Morning Relay), died Nov. 13 of old age. He was 92.

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