Machi Tawara
Machi Tawara ( Japanese 俵 万 智 , Tawara Machi ; born December 31, 1962 in Kadoma ) is a Japanese poet and translator.
Tawara grew up in Takefu (now Echizen ) and studied Japanese literature at Waseda University from 1981 to 1985 . Until 1989 she taught Japanese at Hashimoto High School in Sagamihara . During her studies, she began under the guidance of the poet Yukitsuna Sasaki , Tanka to write. In 1986 she received the thirty-second Kadokawa Tanka Prize . Her first volume of poetry, the Tanka Collection Sarada kinenbi ( サ ラ ダ 記念 日 ), appeared in 1987 and has sold more than two million times. Her translation of Man'yōshū , Taketori Monogatari and Midare Gami ( み だ れ 髪 ) into modern Japanese was also known. She also emerged as a literary critic, published several travel and photography books and wrote essays for newspapers and magazines such as Asahi Shimbun and Bungei Shunjū . In 2004 she was awarded the Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize for Aisuru Genji monogatari .
literature
- J. Scott Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 125–126 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web link
- Machi Tawara website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Machi Tawara: Machi's Profile. Retrieved March 24, 2014 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tawara, machi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 俵 万 智 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kadoma |