ゲンジモノガタリ

Murasaki Shikibu is a Kodansha International author. MASAYUKI MIYATA (1926-97), paper cut-out artist, was discovered by the distinguished writer Tanizaki Jun?ichiro and went on to create his own distinct realm in kiri-e (cut-out illustrations). In 1995, Miyata was selected from among contemporary artists worldwide to be the UN?s official artist. Donald Keene was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 18, 1922. He received a bachelor's degree in 1942, a master's degree in 1947, and a doctoral degree in 1951 from Columbia University. During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer in the Navy and worked translating for Japanese prisoners. He taught at Columbia University for 56 years and was named the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1986 and University Professor Emeritus. He has written, translated, or edited numerous books in both Japanese and English on Japanese literature and culture including The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Essays in Idleness, So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers, Three Plays of Kobo Abe, Twenty Plays of the No Theater, and The Breaking Jewel. His awards include the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture, the Japan Foundation Prize and the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize. U.S. scholar and translator. Born in Boston in 1952. Horton received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Associate Professor. His publications include a two-volume translation and study of the poetic diary of S?ch?, a medieval linked-verse poet, and a translation of The Tale of Genii Picture Book by Setouchi Jakuch? and Ishiodori Tatsuya (Kodansha, 1999).