Machi Tawara (俵 万智, Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet. Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences. Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical…

Jun Ishikawa (石川 淳, Ishikawa Jun, 7 March 1899 – 29 December 1987) was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name (written in the same kanji) was Ishikawa Kiyoshi.