Kaneko Tōta

Kaneko Tōta, 2015

Kaneko Tōta ( Japanese 金子 兜 太 ; born September 23, 1919 in Chichibu ; † February 20, 2018 in Kumagaya ) was a Japanese poet .

Kaneko studied at Tokyo University until 1943 and then worked for the Bank of Japan . He began to write poetry under the guidance of his father, Kaneko Mitsuharu . As a haiku poet, he is influenced by Katō Shūson , Takeshita Shizunojo and Nakamura Kusatao . After the war he was a leading exponent of modern haiku and introduced the metaphor into haiku poetry. In 1962 he founded the Kaitei haiku group . He published, starting with the anthology Shōnen , more than fifty volumes of poetry. In 2008 he was named one of the People of Special Cultural Meritrecorded and awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 2010 . In 2015 he received the Asahi Prize .

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• Kaneko Tohta. In: World Kigu Database - Introducing Haiku Poets, Famous People, Places and Haiku Topics.
• Kaneko Tōta. In: J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13804-8 , p. 444.
• William J. Higginson, Penny Harter: The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku. Kodansha International, 1989, ISBN 4-7700-1430-9 , pp. 41-42.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report , accessed February 20, 2018 ( Japanese )
2. ↑ Tota Kaneko, famed Japanese modern haiku poet, dies at 98 , Japan Times , accessed February 25, 2018

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kaneko is the family name, Tōta the first name.