Takahashi Shinkichi (lyric poet)

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Takahashi Shinkichi ( Japanese 高橋 新 吉 ; born January 28, 1901 , † June 5, 1987 ) was a Japanese poet .

Takahashi was proclaimed Japan's first Dadaist poet by his sponsor, the essayist Tsuji Sun , although echoes of European Dadaism can only be found sporadically (as in the poem "Teller", in the first verse of which the word appears twenty times) in his poems. In the 1920s a collection of poems was published by him under the title "Poems of the Dadaist Shinkichi" (Dadaisuto Shinkichi no shi). His later works were influenced by Zen Buddhism . A five-volume edition of Takahashi's works was published in 1982.

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