This Japanese Pop Culture course has been a wild mix—starting with Osamu Tezuka, and zigzagging through Ghibli, Mario, Sailor Moon, Ghost in the Shell, Uzumaki, Princess Jellyfish, Utena, Pokémon, Madoka, and Your Name. This final week: Golden Kamuy and Ainu-created animation!
@taoleighgoffe Good luck!! We're doing the same tonight by total coincidence after feeling homesick for the ones from Toronto—in the oven now. Fingers crossed!
@taoleighgoffe These look amazing! Just made some last week (though my Bengali mother was horrified when I told her none of the local stores had green chilis!)
“I think of the translator standing by the gate, in the darkness. The darkness is the impossibility of our task.”
Explore Polly Barton's exquisite essay on the challenges & 'small miracles' of translating the visual & phonetic aspects of Japanese poetry:
https://t.co/4vPcnL3mfl
Grateful that a couple of my translations of poems by Tamiki Hara, written in response to the atomic bombings, will be in this issue. 本号のため、原民喜の二編の詩を英訳しました。
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Our 2020 summer special, Japan: Literatures of Remembering—featuring an interview with Mieko Kawakami, articles and an art piece on Manga as memory, new poetry and fiction in translation, and reviews of contemporary Japanese writing and more—is almost here.
Last week we lost a bright light in the study of Japanese poetry. Iwasa Miyoko led research on Kyōgoku poets & the court of Emperor Fushimi. She brought attention to women writers like Eifukumon-in & encouraged us to reconsider undervalued male poets like Fujiwara no Tameie. 1/10