Itō Sei

Itō Sei

Itō Sei ( Japanese 伊藤 整 , actually: Itō Hitoshi ; born January 16, 1905 in Otaru ; † November 15, 1969 ) was a Japanese writer, translator and literary critic.

Itō attended the Otaru Business School and began studying at the Tokyo Business School (now Hitotsubashi University ), which he did not graduate. In 1926 he published the volume of poetry Yukiakari no michi . In the 1930s he participated in the first translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Japanese. He only became known as a translator through his translation of DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (1950).

In the 1950s and 1960s, Itō made a name for himself primarily as a literary critic. In addition, he wrote several very successful novels and received the Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts Nihon geijutsuin-shō . A twenty-four volume edition of his works ( Itō Sei zenshū ) appeared in 1972-74. Since 1990, Otaru, the city of his birth, has awarded the Itō-Sei Literature Prize in his memory .

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• John Scott Miller, "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater," Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 42
• Michael Chan: "The Joyce Agenda: Itō Sei and the Stream of Consciousness" (PDF file; 182 kB)