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Tomita Miki (三木 卓,Miki Taku, May 13, 1935 – November 18, 2023), known by hispen nameTaku Miki, was a Japanese poet and novelist during theShowa andHeisei era.[1]
Miki was born inTokyo, and grew up inManchukuo. He returned to Japan in 1946 and graduated in 1959 fromWaseda University where he majored inRussian literature. During college he wrote poems and reviews forliterary magazineBungaku soshiki, and after graduation formed part of the poetry circle aroundHan ("Inundation").
Miki's principal works include the poetry collectionTokyo gozen sanji (3 AM in Tokyo, 1966), the fairy taleHorobita kuni no tabi ("Travels in a Ruined Country", 1969); andHogeki no ato de ("After the Bombardment", 1973), which contains theAkutagawa Prize-winning[1] storyHiwa ("Finch").
His novels includeFurueru shita ("With Quivering Tongue", 1974),Karera ga hashirinuketa hi ("The Day They Went the Distance", 1978),Gyosha no aki ("The Charioteer in Autumn", 1985), andKoguma-za no otoko ("The Man from the Little Dipper", 1989). He has also writtenliterary 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 textOne World of Literature (1993) by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Norman A. Spencer.
In 2007, he was selected as a member of theJapan Art Academy.
Miki died on November 18, 2023, at the age of 88.[2]
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