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Modern Japanese Poets

* 訳ができているが、著作権法上(死去後５０年未経過)で公開していないがほとんど。
* Only authors deceased for 50 years (in compliance with Japanese copyright law) will be uploaded.
ABC順
Now Alphabetized
安西冬衛 (1898-1965) Anzai, Fuyue (1898-1965)
萩原 朔太郎 (1886-1942) Hagiwara, Sakutaro (1886-1942)
日夏 耿之助 (1890 - 1971) Hinatsu, Konosuke (1890 - 1971)
木下 杢太郎 (1885 - 1945) Kinoshita, Mokutaro (1885 - 1945)
木下 夕爾 (1914 - 1965) Kinoshita, Yuji (1885 - 1945)
北川冬彦 (1900 - 1990) Kitagawa, Fuyuhiko (1900 - 1990)
草野 心平 (1903 - 1988) Kusano, Shimpei (1903 - 1988)
村野四郎 (1901-1975) Murano, Shiro (1901-1975)
室生 犀星 (1889-1962) Murou, Saisei (1889-1962)
中原中也 (1907-1937) Nakahara, Chuya (1907-1937)
高橋元吉 (1893-1965) Takahashi, Motokichi (1893-1965)
高橋新吉 (1901-1987) Takahashi, Shinkichi (1901-1987)
高村 光太郎 (1883-1956) Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956)
壺井繁治 (1897-1975) Tsuboi, Shigeji (1897-1975)
* 以下、詩作品選考のメモを参照。
* See Notes on this selection of J. poetry below.

日本の哀歌集
Japanese Elegies Index

古今をとわず、収集したものを掲載。英訳は、入手できないところは、拙訳をつけた。
Assorted collection. Some new, some old. Appended an English translation or provided my own.

  1. 『梁塵秘抄』 ウェイリー訳
  2. 賽の川和讃
  3. 「祇園精舎」(平家物語序文を「哀詩」として読む)
  4. じゃがたら文 (ジャカルタ追放の混血児)
  5. 与謝野晶子 「君死にたまふことなかれ」
  6. 乃木大将 「爾霊山」(二〇三高地に寄せた漢詩)
  7. 北原白秋 「曼珠沙華(ひがんばな)」
  8. 宮沢賢治 「永訣の朝」
  9. きけわだつみの声
  10. 峠新吉 「人間をかえせ」(被爆者の叫び)
  11. 川端康成 「子守唄」の詩
  12. 草野心平
  13. 高村 光太郎『智恵子抄』より
  14. 『荒城の月』
  15. 西脇順三郎『恋歌』（イヴァン・ゴルの訳のアレンジ） (仏文追加)
  16. 木下夕爾 『花の幻』 [原民喜の詩碑に寄せて]
  1. Ryojin Hisho selection (w/Waley transl.)
  2. Sainogawa Hymnal (on children in limbo)
  3. "The knell of the Gion sacrarium" (Tale of Heike read as poem)
  4. Jagatara Letters (children of mixed parentage banished to Batavia)
  5. Yosano Akiko's "Prithee do not Die"
  6. General Nogi "203 Hill"
  7. Kitahara Hakushu "Higanbana-Flowers"
  8. Miyazawa Kenji ("The Morning of Final Farewell")
  9. Hear the Voices of the Ocean Spirits
  10. Toge Shinkichi ("Give Back the Human")(Hiroshima victim)
  11. Kawabata's lullaby poem
  12. Kusano Shimpei's frog poems
  13. from Takamura Kotaro, Chieko-sho
  14. The Moon over a Ruined Castle
  15. Nishiwaki Junzaburo's Song of Love (French text added)
  16. Kinoshita Yuji's, Illusionary Flower [Hara Tamiki poem monument]

Notes on the Selection of Poetry For the "Modern Poets" section, I have not perused all the J. poetry out there and made the selections myself. It is basically a rip-off of the work done by Shinkichi Ito, ed., Gendai Meishi Sen (3vol.). I translated a subset of thme as an exercise in the past, and decided to upload ones that are public domain works will be uploaded.

I'm not very current on the poetry-in-translation scene nowadays. I have shuffled through Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa tr., Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry (Tuttle Publishing; 1972/1985). A sampling of interesting poems from a fairly large number of poets. Gives author's names in Japanese kanji as well. The text IMO can use some poetic improvement. I revised the translation in pencil extensively on the copy I owned.

The anthology From the Country of Eight Islands by Hiroaki Sato a prolific and excellent translator. This covers ancient periods too btw.

If you want to go back to earlier periods and go beyond poetry perhaps, I would recommend Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century .., which covers diary liteature like the Kagero Nikki, something from the Noh play, and a famous essay "Flower" on the performing arts by Noh playwright Seami, Chikamatsu's puppet plays, etc.

　「現代詩人」の部では、自分で厳選したのではなく、基本的に新潮文庫『現代名詩選』 伊藤信吉著 から過去に訳した作品を持っているのだが、元の文庫のほうは処分してしまったので今は無い。
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