Taku Miki


Taku Miki is the pen-name of a Japanese poet and novelist in Showa and Heisei period Japan. His real name is Tomita Miki.

Biography

Miki was born in Tokyo, grew up in Manchukuo. He returned to Japan in 1946, and graduated in 1959 from Waseda University where he majored in Russian literature. During college he wrote poems and reviews for literary magazine Bungaku soshiki, and after graduation formed part of the poetry circle around Han.
Miki's principal works include the poetry collection Tokyo gozen sanji, the fairy tale Horobita kuni no tabi ; and Hogeki no ato de, which contains the Akutagawa Prize-winning story Hiwa.
His novels include Furueru shita, Karera ga hashirinuketa hi, Gyosha no aki, and Koguma-za no otoko. He has also written literary criticism, essays, and a work of juvenile fiction,.
The poem "Genealogy," translated from the Japanese by Whang Insu, appears in the text One World of Literature by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Norman A. Spencer.
In 2007, he was selected as a member of the Japan Art Academy.

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