Donald Keene

Donald Keene

male, 87 years old
from New York City, Harvard University, Master's Degree, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, japanologist…Japanese language, Japaneseliterature, Japanese-English translator, Japanese culture
Donald Lawrence Keene (b. June 6 1922, New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese...
Ueda Akinari

Ueda Akinari

male, deceased (1809)
yomihon, Tales of Spring Rain, Japaneseliterature, author, Scholar, Tales of Moonlight and Rain…Japanese, Japanese author
Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei was a Japanese author, scholar, and waka poet, and perhaps the most prominent literary figure in eighteenth century J...
Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe

male, 74 years old
Magic realism writer, novelist, University of Tokyo alumni, Nobel laureate in Literature, Japanese, existentialism…Japaneseliterature, nobel prize in literature
is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage...
Kobo Abe

Kobo Abe

male, deceased (1993)
Magic realism writer, From Tokyo, science fiction writer, Playwright, Japanese writer, Japaneseliterature…Japanese, Japanese author
Kobo Abe (安部公房 "Abe Kōbō", pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as "Kobo A...

Jay Rubin

male, 68 years old
University of Washington, Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Penguin Classics, Noh…Japaneseliterature, Modern Japanese Writer
Jay Rubin is one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He also wrote a guide to Japanese,...
Edward Seidensticker

Edward Seidensticker

male, 88 years old
Tokyo Central A Memoir, Junichiro Tanizaki, Some Prefer Nettles, The Sea of Fertility, The Decay of the Angel, The Sound of the Mountain…Japaneseliterature, Japanese-English translator, nobel prize in literature
Edward George Seidensticker (born February 11 1921, in Castle Rock, Colorado) is a noted scholar and translator of Japanese literature,...

Makoto Ueda

male
poetry critic, senryu, tanka, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Japanese American writer…Japanese poetry, Japanese, Japaneseliterature
Makoto Ueda, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Stanford University, is an author of numerous books about Japanese poetry, including...

Earl Miner

male, deceased (2004)
UCLA, Princeton University faculty, Hightstown, professor, New York Times, Williams College…Japaneseliterature, Japanese poetry, International Comparative Literature Association, Bachelor's degree in Japanese
Earl Miner (1926 - April 17, 2004) was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese...

Philip Gabriel

male
East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, Kafka on the Shore, Life in the Cul-De-Sac, Margins of Japanese Literature, Mad Wives and Island Dreams Shimao Toshio…Japaneseliterature, Japanese-English translator
Philip Gabriel is one of the major translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. J. Philip Gabriel is also the...
Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo

female, deceased (1896)
novelist, meiji era, Japanese author, Tuberculosis, Japaneseliterature, Japanese
Higuchi Ichiyō is the pen name of Japanese author Higuchi Natsu (樋口奈津 "Higuchi Natsu"), also known as Higuchi Natsuko (樋口夏子 "Higuchi Natsuko"...