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
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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