Chimako Tada Explained

Chimako Tada
Birth Date:	1 April 1930
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:	Poet, translator, academic
Period:	1930–2003

was a Japanese poet renowned for her surreal style and evocation of women's experience in post-war Japan.^[1] She authored more than 15 books of Japanese poetry, and also translated prose and poetry from French.^[2] Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as tanka and haiku, as well as contemporary prose poetry.^[3]

Selected works

Volumes of poetry

• Hanabi (Tokyo: Shoshi Yuriika, 1956)
• Tōgijo (Tokyo: Shoshi Turiika, 1960)
• Bara uchū (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1964)
• Kagami no machi arui wa me no mori (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1968)
• Nise no nendai ki (Tokyo: Yamanashi Shiruku Sentā, 1971)
• Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1972)
• Suien: Tada Chimako kashū (Kōbe: Bukkusu Kobe, 1975)
• Hasu kuibito (Tokyo: Shoshi Ringoya, 1980)
• Kiryō (Tokyo: Chūsekisha, 1983)
• Hafuribi (Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1986)
• Teihon Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Sunagoya Shobō, 1994)
• Kawa no hotori ni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1998)
• Nagai kawa no aru kuni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2000)
• Kaze no katami (Saitama: Yūhin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2003)
• Fū o kiru to (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2004)
• Yūsei no hito: Tada Chimako kashū (Saitama: Yūshin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2005)

English translations

• Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose, translated by Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus (Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990)
• Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010)

Translations from French into Japanese

• Hadorianusu tei no kaisō (Mémoires d’Hadrien) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1964.
• San-Jon Perusu shishū (Poésies de Saint-John Perse) by Saint-John Perse. Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1967.
• Revi-Sutorōsu to no taiwa (Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss) by Georges Charbonnier. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1970.
• Hariogabarusu: Mata wa taikan seru anākisuto (Héliogabale, ou, L’anarchiste couronné) by Antonin Artaud. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1977.
• Tōhō kitan (Nouvelles orientales) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1980.
• Raion (Le lion) by Joseph Kessel. Tokyo: Nihon Buritanika, 1981.
• Hi (Feux) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1983.
• Tsumibito (Le malfaiteur) by Julien Green. Co-translated with Inoue Saburō. Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 1983.
• Piranēji no kuoi nōzui (Le cerveau noir de Piranese) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1985.

External links

• Tada Chimako, Profile at Poets.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tada Chimako. Nihon jinmei daijiten Plus. Kodansha. 19 September 2012.
2. Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
3. Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose. Trans. Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus. Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990.