Tanka poet Tsukamoto dies at 84

Tanka poet Tsukamoto dies at 84

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Tsukamoto (file photo taken in 1997), an avant-garde tanka poet who had an enormous impact on the classical Japanese poetry following World War II, died June 9 of respiratory failure at a hospital in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, his family said June 10. He was 84.

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