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Japanese haiku is the literary form that most resembles a photograph. The 17 syllables of the poem, and the two or three elements they reference, are taken in virtually at a glance. The elements are ...
TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...
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