Biography of shuntarō tanikawa

Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz 's Peanuts and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He also helped translate Swimmy by Leo Lionni into Japanese. Since the s, Tanikawa also provided short, onomatopoeic verses for picture books he published in collaboration with visual artist Sadamasa Motonaga , whom he had befriended during his residency in New York in , offered by the Japan Society.

He collaborated several times with the lyricist Chris Mosdell , including creating a deck of cards created in the omikuji fortune-telling tradition of Shinto shrines, titled The Oracles of Distraction. The poet and translator Eriko Kishida was his first wife. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura Shueisha, Tanikawa died in Tokyo on November 13, , at the age of He was survived by his son, composer Kensaku Tanikawa, and daughter, Shino Tanikawa, and several grandchildren.

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Shuntarō Tanikawa was a Japanese poet and translator.

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