The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture

Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature: Former Prize Winners

From 1979 to 1988, only a single translation prize was given annually. Beginning in 1989, the prize was given in two categories: translations from Japanese classical literature & Japanese modern literature.

Year	Category	Translator	Title (Japanese Title)	Author	Publisher
2010	Modern	Prof. Michael Emmerich	*Manazuru*	Hiromi Kawakami	Columbia University Press
2010	Classical	Prof. Tom Hare	*Zeami: Performance Notes*	Motokiyo Zeami	Counterpoint Press
2009	Modern	Prof. Jeffrey M. Angles	Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako	Tada Chimako	University of California Press
2009	Classical	Prof. Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen	Murmured Conversations	Shinkei	Stanford University Press
2008	Modern	Prof. Dennis C. Washburn	The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen	Tsutomu Mizukami	Dalkey Archive Press
2007	Modern	Prof. Kozue Uzawa and Ms. Amelia Fielden	Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka		Cheng & Tsui Company
2007	Classical	Prof. Anthony H. Chambers	Tales of Moonlight and Rain	Akinari Ueda	Columbia University Press
2006	Modern	Prof. Edward Fowler	A Man With No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer	Ŏyama Shirō	Cornell University Press
2006	Modern-Classical	Prof. Joel Cohn	Botchan: A Modern Classic	Natsume Sōseki	Kodansha America, Inc.
2005	Modern	Prof. Yosei Sugawara	The Gift of Numbers	Ogawa Yōko	Picador
2005	Modern-Classical	Prof. Damian Flanagan	The Tower of London	Natsume Sōseki	Peter Owen
2004	Modern	Prof. Lawrence Rogers	*Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll*	---	University of California Press
2003	Modern	Prof. Charles S. Inouye	*Japanese Gothic Tales, Volume Two*	Izumi Kyoka	in press at University of Hawaii Press
2003	Modern	Mr. Shogo Oketani & Ms. Leza Lowitz	*America and Other Poems*	Ayukawa Nobuo	will be published by Kaya Press
2002	Prof. Royall Tyler		*The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)*	Murasaki Shikibu	Viking Press
2001	Modern	Prof. James Philip Gabriel	*Life in the Cul-De-Sac (Gunsei)*	Kuroi Senji	Stone Bridge Press
2001	Classical	Prof. Mae J. Smethurst	*Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Noh in Translation*	---	Cornell University East Asia Series
2000	Modern	Ms. Meredith McKinney	*Ravine & Other Stories (Tani, etc.)*	Furui Yoshikichi	Stone Bridge Press
2000	Classical	Prof. Roger K. Thomas	*A Tale of False Fortunes (Namamiko Monogatari)*	Enchi Fumiko	University of Hawaii Press
1999	Modern	Prof. Jay Rubin	*The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru)*	Murakami Haruki	Knopf
1999	Classical	Mr. Hiroaki Sato	*Breeze Through Bamboo*	Ema Saiko	Columbia University Press
1998	Modern	Prof. Elaine Gerbert	**Love of Mountains (Yamagoi)**	Uno Koji	University of Hawaii Press
1998	Classical	Prof. J. Thomas Rimer & Prof. Jonathan Chaves	*Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: The Wakan Roei-shu*	---	Columbia University Press
1997	No Prize was awarded this year
1996	Modern	Prof. John Solt	*Glass Beret: The Selected Poems of Kitasono Katsue (1902-78)*	Kitasono Katsue	Morgan Press
1996	Classical	Prof. Makoto Ueda	*Modern Japanese Tanka*	---	Columbia University Press
1995	No Prize was awarded this year
1994	Modern	Mr. Wayne P. Lammers	*Still Life and Other Stories*	Shono Junzo	Stone Bridge Press
1994	Classical	Prof. H. Mack Horton	*The Journal of Socho*	Saiokuken Socho	Stanford University Press
1993	No Prize was awarded this year
1992	Modern	Ms. Eve Zimmerman	*Strawberry Road*	Ishikawa Yoshimi	Kodansha International
1992	Classical	Prof. Edwin Cranston	*A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup (Vol 1)*	---	Stanford University Press
1991	Modern	Prof. Paul McCarthy	*A Cat, A Man, and Two Women (Neko to Shozo to Futari no Onna)*	Tanizaki Jun'ichiro	Kodansha International
1991	Classical	Prof. Margaret Childs	*Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan*	---	University of Michigan, the Center of Japanese Studies
1990	Modern	Prof. Stephen Snyder	*The Signore (Azuchi Okanki)*	Tsuji Kunio	Kodansha International
1990	Classical	Prof. Paul Gordon Schalow	*The Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku Okagami)*	Ihara Saikaku	Stanford University Press
1989	Modern	Ms. Phyllis Birnbaum	*Confessions of Love (Irozange)*	Uno Chiyo	University of Hawaii Press
1989	Classical	Prof. Steven Carter	*Waiting for the Wind: 36 Poets of Japan's Late Medieval Period*	---	Columbia University Press
1988	Prof. Carol Apollonio Flath		*Aogiri Rasoku*	Kizaki Satoko	Kodansha International
1987	Prof. William Naff		*Before the Dawn (Yoakemae)*	Shimazaki Toson	University of Hawaii Press
1986	No Prize was awarded this year
1985	Mr. Lane Dunlop		*Twenty-four Stories from the Japanese*	---	Northpoint Press Charles E Tuttle
1984	No Prize was awarded this year
1983	Prof. Phyllis Lyons		*The Selected Works of Dazai Osamu*	Dazai Osamu	Stanford University Press
1982	Prof. Laurel Rodd		*The Kokinshu*	---	Princeton University Press
1981	Prof. Karen Wigen		*A View by the Sea*	Yasuoka Shotaro	Columbia University Press
1980	Prof. Juliet Winters Carpenter		*Secret Rendezvous*	Abe Kobo	Knopf
1979	Mr. Ian Hideo Levy		*Man'yoshu*	---	Princeton University Press
1979	Prof. Robert Epp		*Poetry by Kinoshita Yuji*	Kinoshita Yuji	Katydid Books

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