Tōta Kaneko
In this Japanese name, the family name is Kaneko.
Tōta Kaneko (金子 兜太 Kaneko Tōta), (born in Chichibu, September 23, 1919) is a Japanese writer.
He studied at the University of Tokyo and worked for the Bank of Japan. He started to write poems (haiku) helped by his father Mitsuharu Kaneko.
Prizes
- 2005 : Cikada Prize
- 2008 : Person of Cultural Merit
- 2010 : Kikuchi Kan Prize
Bibliography
- Kaneko Tohta. In: World Kigu Database - Introducing Haiku Poets, Famous People, Places and Haiku Topics.
- Kaneko Tōta. In: J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13804-8, p. 444.
- William J. Higginson, Penny Harter: The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku. Kodansha International, 1989, ISBN 4-7700-1430-9, p.|41–42.
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