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

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.