Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist

100年インタビュー

The Summer of Stickleback

Super Folk Song: Piano ga Aishita Onna

Video Letter

Video Portraits - Men: Shuntaro Tanikawa

Yah Chayka!

The Phoenix

Visions of Eight

The Wanderers

To Love Again

Japan and the Japanese

Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament

Tokyo Olympiad

Love

Shuntarō Tanikawa (谷川 俊太郎, Tanikawa Shuntarō, December 15, 1931 – November 13, 2024) was a Japanese poet and translator. He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad. The English translation of his poetry volume Floating the River in Melancholy, translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura and illustrated by Yoko Sano, won the American Book Award in 1989.

Shuntaro Tanikawa