Makoto Ōoka
Japanese poet and literary critic (1931–2017)
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A view of Ooka Makoto Kotoba Museum | |
Native name | 大岡 信 |
Born | (1931-02-16)February 16, 1931 Mishima, Shizuoka |
Died | April 5, 2017(2017-04-05) (aged 86) |
Occupation | Poet and literary critic |
Nationality | Japanese |
Literary movement | Renshi |
Notable works | 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]
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 (Santa 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 (Santa Fe: Katydid Books, 1988)
- Gustave Moreau Caste of Dreams (Tokyo: Parco, 1988)
- Elegy and the Benediction: Selected Poems 1947–1989 (Santa Fe: Katydid Books, 1991)
- The Colors of Poetry: Essays on Classic Japanese Verse (Santa Fe: Katydid Books, 1991. Co-authors: Thomas Fitzsimmons, Donald Keene, Takako Lento, Thomas Lento)
- A Poet's Anthology: The Range of Japanese Poetry (Santa 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 ()
- ^ a b Profile of Makoto Ooka Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Innovative 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.
External links
- Makoto Ooka, Poetry International
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Laureates of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1966)
- Bulat Okudzhava (1967)
- László Nagy (1968)
- Mak Dizdar (1969)
- Miodrag Pavlović (1970)
- W. H. Auden (1971)
- Pablo Neruda (1972)
- Eugenio Montale (1973)
- Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1974)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1975)
- Eugène Guillevic (1976)
- Artur Lundkvist (1977)
- Rafael Alberti (1978)
- Miroslav Krleža (1979)
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1980)
- Blaže Koneski (1981)
- Nichita Stănescu (1982)
- Sachchidananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' (1983)
- Andrei Voznesensky (1984)
- Yiannis Ritsos (1985)
- Allen Ginsberg (1986)
- Tadeusz Różewicz (1987)
- Desanka Maksimović (1988)
- Thomas Shapcott (1989)
- Justo Jorge Padrón (1990)
- Joseph Brodsky (1991)
- Ferenc Juhász (1992)
- Gennadiy Aygi (1993)
- Ted Hughes (1994)
- Yehuda Amichai (1995)
- Makoto Ooka (1996)
- Adunis (1997)
- Liu Banjiu (1998)
- Yves Bonnefoy (1999)
- Edoardo Sanguineti (2000)
- Seamus Heaney (2001)
- Slavko Mihalić (2002)
- Tomas Tranströmer (2003)
- Vasco Graça Moura (2004)
- William S. Merwin (2005)
- Nancy Morejón (2006)
- Mahmoud Darwish (2007)
- Fatos Arapi (2008)
- Tomaž Šalamun (2009)
- Lyubomir Levchev (2010)
- Mateja Matevski (2011)
- Mongane Wally Serote (2012)
- José Emilio Pacheco (2013)
- Ko Un (2014)
- Bei Dao (2015)
- Margaret Atwood (2016)
- Charles Simic (2017)
- Adam Zagajewski (2018)
- Ana Blandiana (2019)
- Amir Or (2020)
- Carol Ann Duffy (2021)
- Shuntarō Tanikawa (2022)
- Vlada Urošević (2023)
- Jean-Pierre Siméon (2024)