What is Tōta Kaneko?
[[File:Tota Kaneko novembre 2015.jpg|right|thumb|Tōta Kaneko, 2015]] {{nihongo|'''Tōta Kaneko'''|金子 兜太|Kaneko Tōta}}, (September 23, 1919 – February 20, 2018) was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] writer. He was born in [[Chichibu, Saitama|Chichibu]], [[Saitama]]. He studied at the [[University of Tokyo]] and worked for the [[Bank of Japan]]. Kaneko started to write poems ([[haiku]]) helped by his father [[Mitsuharu Kaneko]]. In his career, he won [[Cikada Prize]] (2005), [[Person of Cultural Merit]] (2008), [[Kikuchi Kan Prize]] (2010) and [[Asahi Prize]] (2015). Kaneko died on February 20, 2018 of [[pneumonia]] in [[Kumagaya, Saitama|Kumagaya]], Saitama at the age of 98.<ref>[https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASL2N7SV4L2NUCLV01C.html 金子兜太さん死去 戦後日本を代表する俳人]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{in lang|ja}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Works== * ''Kaneko Tohta.'' In: [http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.de/2007/03/kaneko-tohta.html ''World Kigu Database - Introducing Haiku Poets, Famous People, Places and Haiku Topics.''] * ''Kaneko Tōta.'' In: [[J. Thomas Rimer]], Van C. Gessel: [https://books.google.com/books?id=BAg9tUJR1aEC&dq=1919+%22Kaneko+T%C5%8Dta%22&pg=PA444 ''The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present.''] Columbia University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-231-13804-8}}, p.&nbsp;444. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaneko, Tota}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in Japan]] [[Category:Japanese writers]]