but they have come to recognize that the haiku (and tanka) can be poetry. Shiki's early death was a tragedy, but he had changed the nature of haiku and tanka. His disregard of conventionally ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ... The cause of death, at a Tokyo hospital, was old ...