Michiko Ishimure Explained

Michiko Ishimure
Native Name:	石牟礼道子
Birth Date:	11 March 1927
Birth Place:	Kawaura, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Death Date:	10 February 2018 (aged 90)
Death Place:	Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Field:	writer, activist, environmentalist, writing
Works:	Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, Story of the Sea of Camellias, Lake of Heaven

^[1] was a Japanese writer and activist.

She won the 1973 Ramon Magsaysay Award, among the most prestigious awards in Asia, for publicizing writings about Minamata disease, which was extremely controversial at the time.^[2]

Select works

• Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1969) translated into English by Livia Monnet^{[3] [4]} and into German by Ursula Graefe.^[5]
• Story of the Sea of Camellias (1976) translated into English by Livia Monnet^[6]
• Lake of Heaven (1997) translated into English by Bruce Allen.^[7]
• Anima no tori (Birds of Spirit) (1999)
• Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama translated into English by Bruce Allen.^[8]

External links

• Michiko Ishumure (sic), unesco.org via archive.org. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  • Environmental Ambiguity, Literature, and Ishimure Michiko 環境問題の曖昧さ、文学、石牟道子. Karen. Thornber. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 10. 24, no. 2. 11 June 2012.
• Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism. Karen. Thornber. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 14. 13, no. 6. 1 July 2016.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 石牟礼道子さん死去 ９０歳、水俣病告発「苦海浄土」. 10 February 2018. 10 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180210181155/http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/front/list/CK2018021002000262.html. dead.
2. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationIshimureMic.htm CITATION for Michiko Ishimure
3. Book: Ishimure . Michiko . Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow . Livia Monnet . 1990 . Yamaguchi Publishing House.
4. Book: Ishimure . Michiko . Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease . Livia Monnet . 2003 . Center for Japanese Studies.
5. Book: Ishimure . Michiko . Paradies im Meer der Qualen: Unsere Minamata-Krankheit . Ursula Graefe . 1995 . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
6. Book: Ishimure . Michiko . Story of the Sea of Camellias . Livia Monnet . 1983 . Yamaguchi Publishing House.
7. Book: Ishimure . Michiko . Lake of Heaven . Bruce Allen . 2008 . Lexington Books.
8. Book: Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective: Between Sea and Sky . Bruce Allen . Yuki Masami . Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Drama . Yuko Aihara . Bruce Allen . 2016 . Lexington Books . 189–198.