Minako Oba
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Minako Ōba (
She was awarded the 1968 Akutagawa Prize for Sanbiki no kani (Three Crabs), and the 1982 Tanizaki Prize for Katachi mo naku (
Ōba suffered a stroke in 1996 and died on May 24, 2007.
Selected works
[edit]- Sanbiki no kani (Three Crabs), 1968.
- Funakuimushi (ふなくい
虫 ), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1970. - Yūreitachi no fukkatsusai, 1970
- Sabita kotoba, 1971.
- Shishu sabita kotoba (A Poetry Collection of Tarnished Words), 1971.
- Tsuga no yume, 1971.
- Uo no namida, 1971.
- Kokyū o hiku tori, 1972.
- Yasō no yume, 1973.
- Aoi kitsune, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1975.
- Garakuta hakubutsukan, 1975.
- Yamauba no Bisho (The Smile of the Mountain Witch), 1976.
- Urashimasō, 1977.
- Aoi chiisana hanashi, 1978.
- Samete miru yume, 1978.
- Hāna to mushi no kioku, 1979.
- Onna no danseiron, 1979.
- Taidan sei to shite no onna, 1979.
- Tankō, 1979.
- Katachi mo naku (
寂 兮寥兮), Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1982. - Shima no kuni no shima (
島 の国 の島 ), Tokyo : Ushio Shuppansha, 1982. - Kakeru otoko no yokogao (
駈 ける男 の横顔 ), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1984. - Mae mae katatsumuri (
舞 へ舞 へ蝸牛 ), Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1984. - Naku tori no (
啼 く鳥 の), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1985. - Onna otoko inochi (
女 ・男 ・いのち), Tokyo : Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1985. - Onna (
女 ), Tokyo : Sakuhinsha, 1987. - Manʾyōshu (
万葉集 ), Tokyo : Kōdansha, 1989. - Kaoru ki no uta : haha to musume no ōfuku shokan (
郁 る樹 の詩 :母 と娘 の往復 書簡 ), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992. - Nihyakunen (
二 百 年 ), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1993. - Yuki (
雪 ), Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1993. - Warabeuta mutan (わらべ
唄 夢 譚 ), Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1995.
English translations
[edit]- Tarnished Words: The Poetry of Oba Minako, translated by Janice Brown. EastBridge, Signature Books Series, 2005. ISBN 1-891936-38-7.
- Of Birds Crying, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson. Cornell East Asia Series, 2011. ISBN 978-1-933947-30-3
Bibliography
[edit]- Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako, by Michiko Niikuni Wilson, M. E. Sharpe, 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0313-6.
External links
[edit]- J'Lit | Authors : Minako Oba* | Books from Japan (in English)