The Japanese and Mt. Fuji, Uta no saijiki, A Play of Mirrors: Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan
Notable awards
Cultural Prize of the Municipality of Tokyo, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Japan Academy of the Arts Prize for poetry and criticism
Makoto Ōoka (大岡 信,Ōoka Makoto, February 16, 1931, in Mishima, Shizuoka – April 5, 2017)[1] was a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s,[2][3] in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.[4]
Contents
1Asahi Shimbun
2Awards[2]
3Bibliography
4Notes
Asahi Shimbun
Ōoka's poetry column was published without a break seven days a week for more than 20 years on the front page of Asahi Shimbun, which is Japan's leading national newspaper.[5]
Awards[2]
1993: Cultural Prize of the Municipality of Tokyo
1993: Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
1995: Japan Academy of the Arts Prize for poetry and criticism
1996: Asahi Prize
1996: Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia
1997: Cultural Merit Award
2002: Japan Foundation Award[3]
Bibliography
The Japanese and Mt. Fuji (Tokyo: Graphic-sha, 1984)
Uta no saijiki (Gakushu Kenkyusha, 1985)
A Play of Mirrors: Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan (Sante Fe: Katydid Books, 1987)
The World of Sam Francis (Ogawa Art Foundation, 1987)
A String Around Autumn = Aki O Tatamu Himo: Selected Poems, 1952–1980 (Sante Fe: Katydid Books, 1988)
Gustave Moreau Caste of Dreams (Tokyo: Parco, 1988)
Elegy and the Benediction: Selected Poems 1947–1989 (Sante Fe: Katydid Books, 1991)
The Colors of Poetry: Essays on Classic Japanese Verse (Sante Fe: Katydid Books, 1991. Co-authors: Thomas Fitzsimmons, Donald Keene, Takako Lento, Thomas Lento)
A Poet's Anthology: The Range of Japanese Poetry (Sante Fe: Katydid Books, 1994. Translated into English by Janine Beichman)
What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, by Makoto Ōoka, Wing Tek Lum, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama (Manoa: University of Hawaii Press, 1994)
Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets (Hawaii: Univ of Hawaii Press, 1995. With Tsujii Takashi)
The Poetry and Poetics of Ancient Japan (Santa Fe: Katydid Books, 1997. Translated into English by Thomas Fitzsimmons)
Dans l'océan du silence (Paris: Voix d'encre, 1998. Translated into French by Dominique Palmé)
Oriori no Uta: Poems for all seasons (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2000. Translated into English by Janine Beichman)
Love Songs from the Man'yoshu: Selections from a Japanese Classic (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2000)
Voix d'Argile: Fance Franck (Paris: Bayle a Montelimar, 2001)
Notes
^Welcome to Japanese Poetry, Poetry International, 2006
^ abProfile of Makoto Ooka Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine.
^ abInnovative Japan poet bags Japan Foundation prize
^Tomlinson, Charles, Makoto Ooka, James Lasdun, Hiroshi Kawasaki and Mikiro Sasaki. An extract from Departing Swallows, in Journal of Renga & Renku, issue 2, 2012. p162
^Honan, William H. "Why Millions in Japan Read All About Poetry", New York Times. March 6, 2000.
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