This author stands as one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary poets, also recognized as a playwright, essayist, and translator. His early work, emerging in his twenties, caused a sensation and was hailed as the birth of a novel lyrical style. For over half a century, he has shaped the Japanese literary landscape and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. His prolific output spans poetry, drama, screenplays, and extensive translations, marking him as an exceptionally versatile literary figure.
Das Dichtertreffen, das vom 30. März bis zum 2. April 2014 in Tokyo stattfand, war der poetische Beitrag zum 150-Jahre-Jubiläum der Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und Japan.
1939年、パウル・クレーは天使を描きました。彼の作品には、詩のようなタイトルが付けられています。約60年後、現代日本の人気詩人、谷川俊太郎がクレーの天使に詩を捧げました。この詩は、クレーの絵と共に収められており、2点の絵はカラーで印刷されています。最後の部分には、谷川の詩が日本語で掲載されており、谷川自身と翻訳者である著名な日本学者エドゥアルト・クロプフェンシュタインの後書きがあります。
Bringing together the Japanese tradition of poetic compactness, a fascination with America and the West, and a love of words that transcends specific culture and language altogether, Shuntaro Tanikawa is an international treasure. Japan's most popular and esteemed living poet, his sixty-plus volumes have been translated into fifteen languages. In Selected Poems, choice work from eleven books written over the course of his ongoing fifty-year career is ripe with curiosity, candor and play. What's more, his range is breathtaking. Whether focusing on an object (scissors, pebble), an artist (W.H. Auden, John Coltrane), or a geography (Salzburg, the Pacific Northwest), Tanikawa is insatiable in his imaginings of his subject's condition, infinite in his compassion and willingness to consider the world close at hand, and far removed.