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renowned for her surreal style and evocation of women's experience in post-war Japan. She authored more than 15 books of Japanese poetry, and also translated prose and poetry from French. Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as

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, as well as contemporary prose poetry.Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose. Trans. Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus. Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990.

Selected works

Volumes of poetry

* Hanabi (Tokyo: Shoshi Yuriika, 1956) * Tōgijo (Tokyo: Shoshi Turiika, 1960) * Bara uchū (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1964) * Kagami no machi arui wa me no mori (Tokyo: Shōshinsha, 1968) * Nise no nendai ki (Tokyo: Yamanashi Shiruku Sentā, 1971) * Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1972) * Suien: Tada Chimako kashū (Kōbe: Bukkusu Kobe, 1975) * Hasu kuibito (Tokyo: Shoshi Ringoya, 1980) * Kiryō (Tokyo: Chūsekisha, 1983) * Hafuribi (Tokyo: Ozawa Shoten, 1986) * Teihon Tada Chimako shishū (Tokyo: Sunagoya Shobō, 1994) * Kawa no hotori ni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1998) * Nagai kawa no aru kuni (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2000) * Kaze no katami (Saitama: Yūhin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2003) * Fū o kiru to (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2004) * Yūsei no hito: Tada Chimako kashū (Saitama: Yūshin Bunko, Fukiage-chō, 2005)

English translations

*Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose, translated by Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus (Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990) *Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010)

Translations from French into Japanese

* Hadorianusu tei no kaisō (Mémoires d’Hadrien) by

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. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1964. * San-Jon Perusu shishū (Poésies de Saint-John Perse) by

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. Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1967. * Revi-Sutorōsu to no taiwa (Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss) by Georges Charbonnier. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1970. * Hariogabarusu: Mata wa taikan seru anākisuto (Héliogabale, ou, L’anarchiste couronné) by Antonin Artaud. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1977. * Tōhō kitan (Nouvelles orientales) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1980. * Raion (Le lion) by

Joseph Kessel Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Jewish family in ...

. Tokyo: Nihon Buritanika, 1981. * Hi (Feux) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1983. * Tsumibito (Le malfaiteur) by

Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...

. Co-translated with Inoue Saburō. Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 1983. * Piranēji no kuoi nōzui (Le cerveau noir de Piranese) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1985.

References

External links

Tada Chimako, Profile
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