Machi Tawara(俵万智Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet. 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.