Lecture: Sexuality in Modern Japanese Women’s Poetry

September 21, 1999

Lecture: Sexuality in Modern Japanese Women’s Poetry
Hiroaki Sato (Poet and Translator)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Hiroaki Sato is a poet and translator of modern and classical Japanese poetry. Among his  many books are  Basho’s Narrow Road; Spring and Autumn Passages; One Hundred Frogs; From Renga to Haiku to English; and with Burton Watson; From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry. He is now preparing an anthology of Japanese women poets. In 1999, Mr. Sato was awarded the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation of Japanese Literature.

Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies