Makoto Ooka Biography | Poet

Makoto Ooka ( , Ooka Makoto , born February 16, 1931 in Mishima, Shizuoka ) is a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s, in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton and Mikiro Sasaki.