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Machi Tawara (俵万智, Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.[1][2]
Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences.[3][citation needed] Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical Japanese into modern Japanese, for example books such as the Man'yōshū and the Taketori Monogatari.
- ^ Lowitz, Leza; Aoyama, Miyuki; Tomioka, Akemi (1994). A long rainy season: Haiku & Tanka. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-88065615-9.
- ^ Buckley, Sandra (2002). Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14344-6.
- ^ Carpenter, Juliet Winters (1989). "Tawara Machi: "To Create Poetry Is to Live"". Japan Quarterly. 36 (2): 193 – via Proquest.