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

Dadaism Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

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

Zen Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...

poet of modern Japanese literature.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 four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ...

. 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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