and Shōwa period poet Shinkichi Takahashi (高橋 新吉 Takahashi Shinkichi, 1901 – 1987) He was one of the pioneers of Dadaism in Japan.According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major Zen poet of modern Japanese literature. Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (1907–1965), Shōwa period novelist and poet Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (1883–1956), poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura Chieko Takamura (1886–1938) Takarai Kikaku see Kikaku Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎 (born 1931), poet and translator Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (1894–1964), poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (1890–1943), female novelist and poet Takuboku Ishikawa 石川 啄木 (1886–1912), tanka and free-verse poet Tamura Ryūichi 田村隆 (1923–1998), Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry Jun Tanaka 田中純 1890–1966), Shōwa period poet Taneda Santōka see Santōka Tani Soyo 谷宗養 (1526–1563), renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川 俊太郎 (born 1931), poet and translator Tatsunojō, pen name of Yokoi Yayū Machi Tawara 俵万智 (born 1962), writer, translator and poet Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (1935–1983), avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer Ton'a 頓阿 also spelled as "Tonna"; lay name: Nikaidō Sadamune 二階堂貞宗 (1289–1372), poet and Buddhist monk Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (1897–1975) Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (1884–1944), author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian U Ueda Akinari, 上田 秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei" (1734–1809), author, scholar and waka poet W Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (1885–1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet Y Yagi Jūkichi 八木重吉 (1898–1927) Yamabe no Akahito 山部赤人 or 山邊赤人 (700–736), Nara period poet with 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) in the Man'yōshū anthology; has been called the kami of poetry, and Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (1884–1924), vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet Yamanoue no Okura 山上 憶良 (660–733), best known for his poems of children and commoners; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology Sansei Yamao (1938–2001), friend of American poet Gary Snyder Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489 Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (1914–1985), Shōwa period tanka poet Rie Yasumi やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子 (born 1972), senryū