was a Japanese poet. He was one of the pioneers of

Dadaism Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

in Japan. According to Makoto Ueda, he is also the only major

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

poet of modern

Japanese literature Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japa ...

.Makoto Ueda ''Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature'' p.335 Stanford University Press, 1983 He was born on

Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...

. His ''Collected Poems'' won the Japanese

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Prize for Art.''Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter'' edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 1977

Works

*''Dadaist Shinkichi's Poetry'' 1923 *''Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi'' Translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 2000 *''After Images: Zen Poems by Shinkichi Takahashi'' Translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972 *'' (verse)'' *Spanish translation:
En la quietud del mundo
'. Translated by José Luis Fernández Castillo and Kyoko Mizoguchi. Madrid, Pre-textos, 2018.

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Japanese Zen Buddhists 1901 births 1987 deaths Dada 20th-century Japanese poets {{Japan-poet-stub