Japan Poets Club Award
1 appearances
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Edition 50 (2017) award
Takao Oka
おか たかお
Oka Takao
Aliases:
古川 隆夫
Pen Names:
Takao Oka（Pen name (real name: Furukawa Takao)）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1938-11 （Funao Village, Asakuchi District, Okayama Prefecture (now Funao, Kurashiki)）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Residence History
- Kurashiki (Funao), Okayama Prefecture → Okayama Prefecture (teaching and academic work)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, British and American literature scholar, translator, secondary school teacher
- Active Years
- 1962-
- Influenced By
- Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okayama University | Faculty of Law and Letters | Department of Literature | — | 1958-1962 | Japan |
Okayama University
Faculty of Law and Letters
/ Department of Literature
Period:
1958-1962
Year of Graduation:
1962
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Farmer's Literature Prize | Vineyard Collapse | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Japan Poets' Club Prize | Maadasei | — | Japan Poets' Club | 受賞 |
Farmer's Literature Prize
2006
Work:
Vineyard Collapse
Result:
受賞
Japan Poets' Club Prize
2017
Work:
Maadasei
Organization:
Japan Poets' Club
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Yama no Tsume (Mountain's Claw)
1965 poetry collectionAn early collection of poems focusing on regional landscapes and personal feeling.
naturelocal landscapecoming of age
Vapor and Cloud: Poems by Takao Oka
1984 poetry collectionA mid-career collection notable for linguistic experimentation and observational detail.
languagememorylandscape
Two Hundred Million Years of Rice: Poems by Takao Oka
2007 poetry collectionPoems dealing with rural life and crops; themes connected to the author’s award-winning work on agricultural life.
rural lifenaturehuman-land relationship
Maadasei (Poetry Collection)
2016 poetry collectionOne of his late major works, notable for its use of regional dialect and spoken language.
dialectcommunitylabor
Bibliography
- Yama no Tsume (1965)
- Ginba Acacia (1968)
- Anti-Democracy (1970)
- Sick Daffodil (1978)
- Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems (trans. 1978)
- Vapor and Cloud (1984)
- Complete Poems 1961-2010 (2012)
- Maadasei (2016)
Translations by Author
- Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems (trans. 1978)
- Thomas Hardy: Collected Poems (trans. 1981, 1985)
- Selected Poems of Peter Robinson (trans. 1996)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical and observational voiceformal concerns rooted in Anglo-American poetry studiesexperimental use of dialect and colloquial speech
- Recurring Motifs
- rural landscapesmemory and timelanguage and translation
Legacy
Takao Oka is known as a poet, translator and scholar who linked regional themes with translation studies. While teaching, he contributed to Anglo-American poetry scholarship in Japan through studies and translations of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy.
Archives
- National Diet Library - authority and holdings
Trivia
- Real name: Furukawa Takao.
- Graduated from Okayama University, Faculty of Law and Letters, Department of Literature (1962).
- Worked as a teacher at Okayama Prefectural Okayama Higashi Commercial High School.
- Has conducted research on and translated works by Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy.