Japanese poet and writer (1930–2003)
Chimako Tada (多田智満子, Tada Chimako, April 1, 1930 – January 23, 2003) was a Japanese poet renowned for her surreal style and evocation of women's experience in post-war Japan.[1] She authored more than 15 books of Japanese poetry, and also translated prose and poetry from French.[2]Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as tanka and haiku, as well as contemporary prose poetry.[3]
Selected works
Volumes of poetry
- Hanabi (Tokyo: Shoshi Yuriika, 1956)
- Tōgijo (Tokyo: Shoshi Turiika, 1960)
- Bara uchū (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1964)
- Kagami no machi arui wa me no mori (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1968)
- Nise no nendai ki (Tokyo: Yamanashi Shiruku Sentā, 1971)
- Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1972)
- Suien: Tada Chimako kashū (Kōbe: Bukkusu Kobe, 1975)
- Hasu kuibito (Tokyo: Shoshi Ringoya, 1980)
- Kiryō (Tokyo: Chūsekisha, 1983)
- Hafuribi (Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1986)
- Teihon Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Sunagoya Shobō, 1994)
- Kawa no hotori ni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1998)
- Nagai kawa no aru kuni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2000)
- Kaze no katami (Saitama: Yūhin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2003)
- Fū o kiru to (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2004)
- Yūsei no hito: Tada Chimako kashū (Saitama: Yūshin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2005)
English translations
- Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose, translated by Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus (Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990)
- Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010)
Translations from French into Japanese
- Hadorianusu tei no kaisō (Mémoires d’Hadrien) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1964.
- San-Jon Perusu shishū (Poésies de Saint-John Perse) by Saint-John Perse. Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1967.
- Revi-Sutorōsu to no taiwa (Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss) by Georges Charbonnier. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1970.
- Hariogabarusu: Mata wa taikan seru anākisuto (Héliogabale, ou, L’anarchiste couronné) by Antonin Artaud. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1977.
- Tōhō kitan (Nouvelles orientales) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1980.
- Raion (Le lion) by Joseph Kessel. Tokyo: Nihon Buritanika, 1981.
- Hi (Feux) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1983.
- Tsumibito (Le malfaiteur) by Julien Green. Co-translated with Inoue Saburō. Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 1983.
- Piranēji no kuoi nōzui (Le cerveau noir de Piranese) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1985.
References
- ^ "Tada Chimako". Nihon jinmei daijiten Plus. Kodansha. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- ^ Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose. Trans. Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus. Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990.
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