Harold Wright, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture, as well as storytelling at Antioch College, has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Columbia University Translation Center Prize, a Japan Foundation Grant, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a National Translation Center Award, A National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, the Antioch Sears Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program Fellow ship for Translators Grant to spend a year in Japan translating the work of that country’s leading poet, Tanikawa Shuntaro

 

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Published books of translation include

  • The Map of Days, Tanikawa Shuntaro, Katydid Press, Fall 1996
  • The Opening Way: Kurozumi, Founder of Kurozumikyo, (Written by Kurozumi Tadaaki and translated with Julie Iezzi. Edited by Willis Stoesz.)
    University Press of America, 1994
  • Ten Thousand Leaves: Love Poems from the Manyoshu, (Reprint), Overlook, 1986
  • Waka Poetry of the Empress Shoken, Meiji Jingu, 1984
  • The Selected Poems of Shuntaro Tanikawa, North Point Press, 1983
  • Waka Poetry of the Emperor Meiji, Meiji Jingu, 1982
  • Ten Thousand Leaves: Love Poems from the Manjoshu, Shambhala, 1970
  • Why, Mother Why? Kodansha International, 1965
  • The Children of Japan, Asahi Shimbun Press 1964

Available for purchase, email:jh@jonathaandharold.com    

  • Spine Tingling Tales of Old Japan. (click title for thumbnail) Japan is an ancient culture with over two thousand years of ghosts, monsters and changelings of over one hundred different types and all are still haunting their favorite temples, bridges, mountains, and shrines. These legendary creatures grow in stature and stories to this day.  This book contains seven stories ranging from spooky to terrifying.  Scary tricks are the plot of two stories, “What Scares You the Most” and “The Bravest Samurai.”  “The Monster of the Rashomon” and “Snow Woman” are the best known in the West.  Not as well known are the more regional tales of “Snow Ghost,” “The Skeptic” and “Uryu Island.”
    Book, Weight 5 1/2 ounces, $12.00 plus shipping and Handling through Lulu
    direct
  • Haiku, Triku, Tanka and More: Fifty Years of Japan- Inspired Fixed Form Verse, with accompanying CD. (click title for thumbnail) A collection of the experimental verse written over the last fifty plus years by Harold Wright, professor emeritus of Japanese Language and Literature, Antioch College.  The focus of this work is mostly the short poetry created under the influence of Japanese fixed form syllabic poetry, the Haiku, Tanka and Choka.  Text read by the poet, Harold Wright.
    Compact Disc/ Book, Weight 5 1/2 ounces, $24.95 plus shipping and handling

To be published in 2007:

  • A Story of Japanese Poetry, 1300 Years of Japanese Verse, with accompanying CD
  • Me and Harley: My Same Age Uncle, Story Poems of An Ohio Appalachian Boyhood

To be published in 2008:

  • "Page a Minute Stories" One minute personal stories with accompanying CD (Harold)
  • "Watashi Wa," children's book, by Tanikawa Shintaro, translation Harold Wright
  • "Howling at the Moon," by Hagiwara Sakutaro, translation Harold Wright
  • "Murdock," Appalachian children's book (Harold)

Publications 2008

  • Jappalachian Professor - A Memoir (Harold)
  • "Flesh Crawling Tales from Japan" (Jonatha and Harold)
  • "Crane Maiden," Jonatha Wright and Tico Sakata

 

 

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