Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)

Makoto Ōoka

Japanese poet and literary critic (1931–2017)

Makoto Ōoka was 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, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.