Takaaki Yoshimoto Biography | Poet

Takaaki Yoshimoto ( , Yoshimoto Takaaki , 25 November 1924 – 16 March 2012) also known as Ryumei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher from Tokyo. He is the father of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto and of cartoonist Yoiko Haruno.