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was the pen-name of a Japanese poet and novelist in Showa period Japan. His real name was Tomita Miki. == Biography == Miki was born in Tokyo, grew up in Manchukuo. He returned to Japan in 1946, and graduated in 1959 from Waseda University where he majored in Russian literature. During college he wrote poems and reviews for literary magazine ''Bungaku soshiki'', and after graduation formed part of the poetry circle around ''Han'' ("Inundation"). Miki's principal works include the poetry collection ''Tokyo gozen sanji'' (3 AM in Tokyo, 1966), the fairy tale ''Horobita kuni no tabi'' ("Travels in a Ruined Country", 1969); and ''Hogeki no ato de'' ("After the Bombardment", 1973), which contains the Akutagawa Prize-winning〔 story ''Hiwa'' ("Finch"). His novels include ''Furueru shita'' ("With Quivering Tongue", 1974), ''Karera ga hashirinuketa hi'' ("The Day They Went the Distance", 1978), ''Gyosha no aki'' ("The Charioteer in Autumn", 1985), and ''Koguma-za no otoko'' ("The Man from the Little Dipper", 1989). He has also written literary criticism (''Kotoba no suru shigoto'', "The Work Words Do", 1975), essays (''Tokyo bishiteki hokō'', "Microscopic Strolls Through Tokyo", 1975), and a work of juvenile fiction, (''Potapota'', "Drip, Drip", 1984). The poem "Genealogy," translated from the Japanese by Whang Insu, appears in the text ''One World of Literature'' (1993) by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Norman A. Spencer. In 2007, he was nominated to the Japan Art Academy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taku Miki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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