Yukitsuna Sasaki
Yukitsuna Sasaki ( Japanese 佐佐木 幸 綱 , Sasaki Yukitsuna ; born October 8, 1938 ) is a Japanese poet and literary scholar.
The grandson of the poet Nobutsuna Sasaki is a professor of Japanese literature at Waseda University in Tokyo. He heads the writers' group Chikuhaku Kai and is the editor of the literary magazine Kokoro no hana (Heart's Blossoms), which his grandfather founded . Sasaki published several works on Tanka literature and wrote fourteen Tanka volumes himself. In 2011 he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize in the poetry category.
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- Kozue Uzawa, Amelia Fielden (Eds.): 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka . Cheng & Tsui, 2006, ISBN 978-0-88727-494-7 , pp. 124 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Bruce Ross: Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights: Lectures and Essays on Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts . Peter Lang, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4331-0287-5 , pp. 107 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Humboldt University Berlin - Center for Language and Culture of Japan - Lecture by SASAKI Yukitsuna
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| SURNAME | Sasaki, Yukitsuna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 佐佐木 幸 綱 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1938 |