Artist
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TANIKAWA Shuntaro
Japan
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Born in Tokyo from 1931 to 2024, he first attracted attention in 1952 with the publication of his first collection of poems, “Two Billion Light-years of Solitude. Subsequently, he received the Hagiwara Sakutaro Prize for “Seken Shirazu,” the Ayukawa Nobuo Prize for “Tromso Collage,” the Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize for “On Poetry,” and many other accolades for his poetry collections. He has appeared on NHK in the ETV specials “Just Being There: Shuntaro Tanikawa, Poet, Gazing at Aging,” “When I Was a Child,” and “Words that Sing of Life: Poets Shuntaro Tanikawa and Wakako Satoru,” and in the ETV special “Words that Sing of Life: Shuntaro Tanikawa and SATORU Wakako Satoru,” etc. He has also written lyrics for the NHK National School Music Contest five times, and was awarded the Hoso Bunka Prize in 2024 for his support of Japanese culture through the power of words.
Exhibited as a room in Coco Room “Poet's Room - Shuntaro Tanikawa writes and you write." The poet Shuntaro Tanikawa faced the table in this room and exhibited his poem “At Cocoyadoya” which he created. Room tours will be held during the Art Festival.
