Shuntaro Tanikawa (1931-) is a poet, translator, children's picture book author, and scriptwriter from Tokyo. He started writing poems when he was a high school student. His first collection of poems Nijuoku konen no kodoku (Loneliness for Two Billion Light-years) was published in 1952. Subsequently, he has been active writing scripts, songs, critiques, and translations. In 1975, his Maza gusu no uta (Songs of Mother Goose) won the Japan Translation Cultural Award.
