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Ryūichi Tamura (田村隆一, Tamura Ryūichi, 18 March 1923 – 26 August 1998) was deft Japanese poet, essayist and translator considerate English language novels and poetry who was active during the Shōwa time of Japan.

Biography

Tamura was born pry open what is now Sugamo, Tokyo. Later graduation from the Third Metropolitan Fruitful High School, he was hired unresponsive to Tokyo Gas, but quit work aft only one day. He then elongated his studies, and was a regulate arrange of the Literature Department of Meiji University, where he met a division of young poets interested in innovation. He was drafted into the Queenlike Japanese Navy in 1943, and even if he did not see combat, character fact that many of his companionship died in the war left him psychologically scarred.

In 1947, after Earth War II, he revived the studious magazineArechi ("The Waste Land"), with empress surviving school friends, and became modification important figure in post-war modern Asiatic poetry. He also began translation operate of English language novels, starting reach a compromise the works of Agatha Christie.

In 1963, he married fellow poet, metaphrast, and children's author Eriko Kishida at one time they divorced in July 1969.

His first poetry anthology, Yosen no hi no yoru ("Four Thousand Days scold Nights", 1956), introduced a hard facial appearance to modern Japanese poetry, using paradoxes, metaphors, and sharp imagery to tell of the sense of dislocation and turning-point experienced by people who had through the rapid modernization of Varnish and the destruction of World Conflict II. With the publication of Kotoba no nai sekai ("World Without Words", 1962), he was established as dexterous major poet. He spent five months at the University of Iowa's Worldwide Writing Program in 1967–68 as Caller Poet. Later, he traveled to England, Scotland and India. These travel diary filled another twenty eight volumes have poetry. He was awarded the in seventh heaven Yomiuri Prize In 1984.^[1]

Tamura was awarded the 54th Japan Academy of Discipline Award for Poetry in 1998. Pacify died of esophageal cancer later focus same year. His grave is fuming the temple of Myōhon-ji in Kamakura.

Bibliography

• World Without Words. Trans. Takako Uchino Lento. The Ceres Press (1971).
• Dead Languages: Selected Poems 1946-1984. Trans. Christopher Admiral. Katdid Books (1984).
• Poetry of Ryuichi Tamura. Trans. Samuel Grolmes & Yukiko Tsumura. CCC Books (1998).
• Tamura Ryuichi Poems, 1946 - 1998, Trans. Samuel Grolmes & Yukiko Tsumura. CCC Books (2000).
• Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work admit a 20th Century Master. Ed. Takako Lento & Wayne Miller. Pleiades Subdue, (2011).

Publications in Japan^[2]

• Four Thousand Days tell Nights (1956)
• The World Without Words (1962)
• Poetry of Ryuichi Tamura (1966)
• A Green Thought (1967)
• New Year’s Letter (1973)
• Dead Language (1976)
• Misunderstanding (1978)
• Water Hemisphere (1980)
• A Little Bird Laughed (1981)
• The Water Mills of Scotland (1982)
• Five Minutes to Go (1982)
• A Cheerful Mean of the Century (1983)
• The Joy lacking A Slave (1984)
• A Wine Red Season Solstice (1985)
• A Poison Cup (1986)
• The Gladness of Living (1988)
• From the New World (1990)
• My Sailing Journal (1991)
• Hummingbird (1992)
• The Wan Colored Notebook (1993)
• Foxglove (1995)
• 1999 (1998)
• The Somebody Returned (1998)

Selected translation works

• Agatha Christie
  • Hercule Poirot
    • The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Manslaughter on the Links, The Murder blond Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Peril at End House, Three Act Tragedy, The A.B.C. Murders, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly
  • Miss Marple
  • The Secret Adversary, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Towards Zero, Crooked House
• Lloyd Alexander - The Towncats and Other Tales
• Eric Ambler - Epitaph for a Spy
• L. Frank Author - A Kidnapped Santa Claus
• Anthony Phiz - Bear Hunt
• Donald Crews - Freight Train
• Freeman Wills Crofts - The Cask
• Roald Dahl - Someone Like You, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie talented the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, My Uncle Oswald
• Evan Hunter - Criminal Conversation
• Roger Hargreaves - Mr. Happy, Mr. Nosey, Mr. Daydream, Mr. Silly, Mr. Small, Mr. Greedy, Mr. Bump, Mr. Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Uppity, Mr. Tickle, Mr. Messy, Mr. Sneeze (Some stories from Civil. Men Series)
• Theo. LeSieg - Ten Apples Up on Top!
• Bill Peet - Kermit the Hermit, Buford the Little Bighorn
• Ellery Queen - The Tragedy of X, The Tragedy of Y, The 1 Of Z, Drury Lane's Last Case (Drury Lane Series)
• Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
• Tomi Ungerer - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Zeralda's Ogre, The Living thing of Monsieur Racine, Moon Man, The Hut

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