Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan’s most popular poet for more than half a century, whose stark and whimsical poems, blending humor with melancholy, made him a kind of Everyman philosopher ideally suited to translating the “ Peanuts ” comic strip and Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese, died on Nov....
Tanikawa was revered in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers....
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