Sunset and Youth: Selected Poems by Mutsuro Takahashi (Chinese-Japanese Bilingual) / Written by Mutsuro Takahashi

**"International Poets in Hong Kong" Series** In the world of contemporary Japanese poetry, Mutsuro Takahashi may be the only recognized literary all-rounder. He has made great achievements in the fields of modern poetry, haiku, tanka, novels, essays, criticism and even the creation of the classical script "Noh". The poet used his own creative actions to ease the "estrangement" and the confrontational "tense relationship" between modern Japanese poetry and classical traditional poetry. Takahashi's poetry makes a meaningful attempt between tradition and modernity, providing the possibility for new writing methods and a new poetic order for modern poetry. Its overall poetic style is steady, witty, and profound, with a certain sense of tragedy, making it unique among postwar Japanese modern poetry. Japanese book title: 夜焼けと男 Author: Mutsuo Takahashi Translator: Tian Yuan, Liu Muyang ISBN: 9789882371323 Binding: Hardcover Language: Traditional Chinese, Japanese Number of pages: 200 Dimensions: 216 x 120mm **About the author** Mutsuo Takahashi, born in 1937, is a famous contemporary Japanese poet, writer and critic. Born in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Fukuoka University of Education. He has been composing tankas, haiku and modern poems since he was a boy. "Minotto, My Bull", her debut poetry collection published at the age of 22, is a collection of modern poems written between the ages of 14 and 21. Since then, he has published 36 collections of poems and poetry anthologies, 10 collections of tanka and haiku, 3 novels, 4 stage plays, and 30 collections of essays and reviews. In addition to some works being translated into various languages, several anthologies of poetry have been published in foreign languages in countries such as the United States, Britain and Ireland. In 2000, he was awarded the Medal of Merit with Purple Ribbon for his involvement in various creative fields and outstanding contributions to literary and artistic creation. The poet has won many important literary awards so far: the Yomiuri Literature Prize, the Takami Shun Poetry Prize, the Ayukawa Nobuo Poetry Prize, the Snakatsuki Haiku Prize, etc. **Translator profile** Tahara is a poet living in Japan, a doctor of Japanese literature, and a translator. Born in Luohe, Henan in 1965, he went to Japan to study in the early 1990s and is now a professor at Josai International University in Japan. He has published five poetry collections including "Selected Poems of Tahara" and "Dream Snake". He has won Chinese poetry awards in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and the United States. He has edited the Japanese version of "Selected Poems of Shuntaro Tanigawa" (four volumes), and translated and published "Selected Poems of Shuntaro Tanigawa" (18 volumes) in mainland China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, "Foreigner - Selected Poems of Joe Tsujii", "Let We continue our silent journey - "Selected Poems of Muro Takahashi", "The Complete Works of Kaneko Misuzu", "Selected Haiku of Matsuo Basho", "Disqualified in the World", etc. He has published collections of Japanese literary essays "Tanigawa Shuntaro" (Iwanami Shoten), "The Poetics of Bilingual Poets" (Shichaosha), etc. His works have been translated into more than ten languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Finnish and Portuguese, and anthologies of poems have been published in English, Korean and Mongolian. Liu Muyang, female, was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in June 1991. He graduated from the Japanese Department of the School of Foreign Languages of Northeastern University in June 2014, and then entered the graduate school of the same school to continue his studies in foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, and received a master's degree in literature in January 2017. In September 2015, he went to Japan for exchange and study at Josai International University, and obtained a master's degree in international culture in August 2016. Currently studying at the Graduate School of Humanities, Josai International University, pursuing a PhD in Comparative Culture. Her main research direction is Japanese postwar female modern poetry. In January 2017, he won the Outstanding Work Award in the first Modern Poetry Return Award for Overseas Students.