Richard Okada Explained

Hideki Richard Okada (2 July 1945 – 4 April 2012^[1]) was Professor of Japanese at Princeton University, in the East Asian Studies Department. He was a specialist in the Tale of Genji, and his most recent work was editing a three-volume collection of academic essays about the novel. His doctoral degree was from the University of California, Berkeley.

His 1977 doctoral thesis, Sagoromo monogatari: a study and partial translation,^[2] has been called "one of the most important contributions to the study of classical Japanese narrative to have emerged in the last twenty years " by Richard Bowring of the University of Cambridge.^[3]

He died of natural causes on 4 April 2012 in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.^[4]

On 20 May 2017, an independent report commissioned by St. Paul's School named Okada as one of thirteen adults at the school against whom substantiated instances of sexual misconduct had been documented.^[5]

Publications

Books

• Okada, H. Richard. Figures of resistance: language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. In over 200 North American academic libraries, according to WorldCat^[6]
• Okada, H. Richard, ed. The Tale of Genji. London: Routledge, 2009.3 vols.

Other publications

• 『地球／惑星文学としての物語の可能性と行方』(“ The Possibility and Future of monogatari as Planetary Literature”),
• “The Possibility and Impossibility of Zainichi in GO,”
• 『翻訳・コスモロジー・ジェンダー』 (“Translation, Cosmology, and Gender”).
• "Domesticating the Tale of Genji, by Richard H. Okada 1990 Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1990), pp. 60-70 JStor
• "Translation and Difference--A Review Article" Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 29-40 JSTOR
• "Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicities" in Miyoshi, Masao. Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Durham [u.a.]: Duke University Press, 2002. p. 190-205

External links

• Official CV
• Casner & Edwards Independent Investigation of Sexual Misconduct at SPS

Notes and References

1. Web site: Okada, H. Richard. Library of Congress Authorities. 25 April 2012.
2. Book: Sagoromo monogatari : a study and partial translation. (Book, 1977) . [WorldCat.org] . 29531876.
3. The Ise monogatari: A Short Cultural History Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 401-480
4. Web site: Saxon. Jamie. Richard Okada, Princeton scholar of East Asian studies and mentor, dies. News at Princeton. 25 April 2012.
5. Web site: Read the full report on sexual misconduct at St. Paul's School - the Boston Globe.
6. Book: Figures of resistance : language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts (Book, 1991) . [WorldCat.org] . 23384982.