of the same year was made a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government. In 1973, he was awarded the 2nd class of the Order of the Sacred Treasures. In 1976 a limited edition collection of Horiguchi's poems, entitled "Tôten no Niji" ("Rainbow in the Eastern Sky"), was illustrated by noted modernist artist Hodaka Yoshida, who contributed seven signed and numbered prints to accompany the poems. In 1979 he was awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese government. Horiguchi died in March 1981 at the age of 89. His grave is at the Kamakura Reien cemetery. During his career, Horiguchi published more than 20 books of poetry. His verses combined the flexibility of the Japanese style with hints of the resonance of the French language, and he was noted for making use of colloquial Japanese words in his translations to come closer to the original imagery, rather than attempting to force the translated poems into a more traditional Japanese format. See also Japanese literature List of Japanese authors References Horiguchi, Sumireko. Chichi no katamigusa: Horiguchi Daigaku to watakushi. Bunka Shuppankyoku (1990). (Japanese) Epp, Robert, "Introduction" (pp. 17–30), in Rainbows—Selected Poetry of Horiguchi Daigaku (1994). 565 works; 360 pp. Frederic, Louise. Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press (2002). . Baker, Mona. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Routledge (2001). 1892 births 1981 deaths People from Tokyo Recipients of the Order of Culture Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese translators