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Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet.

She is credited with revitalizing the tanka ( a type of poem that can be seen as a predecessor of the haiku ) for modern Japanese audiences.

Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical Japanese into modern Japanese, for example books such as the Man ' yōshū and the Taketori Monogatari.