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Tatsuya Iwanari

いわなり たつや

Tatsuya Iwanari

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1933-04-10 （Kyoto）
Died
2022-12-09 age 89
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Resident of Takarazuka

Career

Occupations
Poet, Bank executive
Active Years
1958-2022

Education

University of Tokyo
Faculty of Science / Department of Mathematics
Country: Japan

Awards

Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize
1981
Work: Continuous Notes on a Medium-Sized Ice-Making Machine
Organization: Fujimura Memorial Association
Result: winner
Takami Jun Prize
1990
Work: The Song of Flevévri Hippopotamus
Organization: Takami Jun Prize Committee
Result: winner
Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize
2003
Work: (Light), ... Abrasion.
Organization: Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize Committee
Result: nominated
Gendai-shi Hanatsubaki Prize
2009
Work: Green, Passing Those Days.
Organization: Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Committee
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Fragments on Leonardo's Ship

1969 Poetry collection

An early collection of experimental fragmentary poems.

experimental poetryfragmentationmathematical imagery

Continuous Notes on a Medium-Sized Ice-Making Machine

1980 Poetry collection

Observational poems focused on everyday objects, structured as episodic notes.

everyday lifemachinesobservation

The Song of Flevévri Hippopotamus

1989 Poetry collection

A representative mid-career work notable for wordplay and flowing imagery.

linguistic playchains of imageryurban and nature

Green, Passing Those Days.

2009 Poetry collection

A late-career collection contemplating nature and memory; the title work won the Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Prize.

naturememorypassage of time

Bibliography

  • Fragments on Leonardo's Ship
  • Three Fragments on Combustion
  • Gradually Outward and Others
  • Simulated Fields and Their Surroundings
  • Collected Poems of Tatsuya Iwanari
  • Thirteen Small Experiments for Micro-Cosmography
  • Continuous Notes on a Medium-Sized Ice-Making Machine
  • Notes for the 'Ark Revival'
  • Notes on the Foundations of Poetic Relations
  • The Song of Flevévri Hippopotamus
  • The Town Where Flevévri Lives
  • My Complete Poetics: Essays
  • Selections: 'Birds, Wind, Moon, Flowers'
  • (Light), ... Abrasion.
  • Toward Poetry
  • Green, Passing Those Days.
  • Here/Now
  • Splashes of Misreading
  • Into the Forest
  • Traces of the Wind

Translations by Author

  • The World of Mathematical Magic (M. C. Escher, translation)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimental poetic formswordplaymathematical motifs
Recurring Motifs
birdswindmoonflowersgreenery

Health

  • heart failure
    2022-12-09
    Died of heart failure

Legacy

A poet active from the postwar era into the contemporary period. While serving in banking, he continued to write experimental poetry noted for linguistic play; he received several poetry prizes and recognition.

Archives

  • National Diet Library

Trivia

  • Born in Kyoto.
  • Served as a senior executive (managing director and permanent auditor) at Daiwa Bank (later part of the Resona group).
  • Co-founded the poetry magazine 'Amorph' (あもるふ) in 1958.
  • Won the Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize for the poetry collection 'Continuous Notes on a Medium-Sized Ice-Making Machine.'