Kyoko Iriye Selden

Selden (c. 1975)

Kyoko Iriye Selden(Japanese:Nhập giang cung tử,1936–2013)was a Japanese scholar of Japanese language and literature and a translator.

Biography

Kyoko Iriye was born inTokyo.Her father was a journalist reporting fromParisandShanghai,and her mother was an English teacher. She attended Seikei High School, and wrote a thesis onWordsworthat theUniversity of Tokyo,before studying English Literature on aFulbright ScholarshipatYale University.She taught atCornell Universityfor twenty-five years, and was a literary translator. She was married toMark Selden,with whom she had three children and four grandchildren.

Selected publications

Translations into English of Fiction, History, Biography, Early Childhood Education, and Art

• Kodaira Takashi(ed.),Tenrō haiku no eiyaku: Seishi, Toshio, Ayako(Haiku from the Tenrō School in English Translation: Seishi, Toshio, Ayako) (Yokohama: Shumpūsha, 2014) - translated byAlfred H. Marksand Kyoko Selden.
• Suzuki Shin’ichi,Nurtured by Love.Revised edition (Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music Publishing, 2013) - translated by Kyoko Selden withLili Selden
• Cho Kyo,The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
• Tanaka Shigeki,Everything Depends on How We Raise Them: Educating Young Children by the Suzuki Method(Miami: Summy-Birchard, 2002)
• Honda Katsuichi,Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
• Tomioka Taeko,The Funeral of a Giraffe: Seven Stories of Tomioka Taeko(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999) - translated by Kyoko Selden andNoriko Mizuta.
• Kayano Shigeru,Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, [1994] 1996) - translated by Kyoko Selden and Lili Selden.
• Suzuki Shin’ichi,Young Children’s Talent Education and Its Method(Miami: SummyBirchard, 1996)
• Selden, Kyoko andNoriko Mizuta(eds),Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe [1982] 1991) - edited and translated with Noriko Mizuta.
• Selden, Mark and Kyoko Selden (eds),The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989)
• Shimizu Yoshiaki(ed.),Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868(Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1989.
• Suzuki Shin’ichi. Talent Education for Young Children. New Albany, IN: World-Wide Press, 1986)
• Honda Masaaki,Shinichi Suzuki: Man of Love(Princeton: Birch Tree Group, 1984)
• Suzuki Shin’ichi,Where Love Is Deep: The Writing of Shin’ichi Suzuki(New Albany, IN: World-Wide Press, 1982)

The Kyoko Iriye Selden Memorial Translation Prize

Source:

Also known as the Kyoko Selden Translation Prize, this was established in 2014, with contributions from colleagues and friends, to honor Kyoko Iriye Selden's scholarly legacy. The prize is awarded to translations that are at the unpublished stage, to support and encourage translation and publication of Japanese language materials across a broad range.

2021 Winners

• Excerpts fromShōkenkōTiêu kiên bản thảo: The Selected Poems of Zekkai Chūshin tuyệt trong biển tân (1336-1405), byZekkai Chūshin(1336-1405) - translated byPaul Atkins
• "A Dosimeter on the Narrow Road to Oku" ( tuyến lượng kế と áo の tế nói, 2018), byDurian Sukegawa(ドリアン trợ xuyên ) - translated byAlison Watts

2020 Competition cancelled
2019 Winner

• "The Maiden's Betrayal" (Otome no mikkoku,2010),Akiko Akazome- translated byMichelle Kyoko Crowson

2018 Winners

• "A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion" (Sankan no meika,1889), byNakajima Shōen- translated byDawn Lawson
• "An Artificial Heart" (Jinkō Shinzō,1926), byKosakai Fuboku- translated byMax Zimmerman

Honorable Mention:Chapter Four ofIshimure Michiko's historical novel about the Shimabara Rebellion, Birds of Spirit (Anima no tori,1999) - translated by Bruce Allen 2017 Winners

• "Tale of the Enchanted Sword" ( yêu kiếm nhớ nghe,Yōken Kibun,1920), byIzumi Kyōka- translated byNina Cornyetz
• "The Torrent" ( trút ra,Hon’ryū,1943), by Taiwanese writerWang Changxiong( vương sưởng hùng, also known by his Japanese name,Ō Chōyū) - translated byErin Brightwell

2016 Winner

• "Not of Color" (Hishoku), byAriyoshi Sawako- translated byPolly Barton

2015 Winner

• "Muddy River" (Doro no kawa), byMiyamoto Teru- translated byAndrew Murakami-Smith

2014 Winners

• "Sagoromo" (Sagoromo monogatari), byRokujo no Saiin Senji(1039-1036) - translated byDavid Pearsall Dutcher
• "So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms" (Mankai no sakura ga mirete ureshii na,2012), byMadoka Mayuzumi- translated byHiroaki SatoandNancy Sato

Further reading

• Obituary inThe New York Times,14 Feb 2013.
• "Selected Works of Kyoko Selden",Review of Japanese Culture and Society,Vol. 27, Special Issue 2015, pp. 279–284.Selected Works by Kyoko Selden