As of 2015, the
Japanese language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ma ...
has two translations available of the
Tirukkural
The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' ( ta, திருக்குறள், lit=sacred verses), or shortly the ''Kural'' ( ta, குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or Kural (poetic form), kurals, of seven ...
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History
The first Japanese translation of the Kural text was made by
Shuzo Matsunaga
(born 1921) is a Japanese engineer best known for translating the Kural into Japanese from its English version.
Biography
Shuzo first read a translation of a few couplets of the Kural in the 1970s and developed an interest in reading more of ...
in 1981,
who also translated it into
Korean
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The second translation was made by
Takanobu Takahashi
is a Japanese Indologist, who is currently associate professor of Indian literature at International Buddhist University at Osaka, Japan. He is the second translator of the Kural into Japanese.
Biography
Takanobu Takahashi was born in 1951 a ...
in 1999 titled ''Thirukkural: Sacred Verses of Ancient Tamil'' (ティルックラル: ティルヴァッルヴァル＝著 高橋孝信＝訳). 南インドのタミル地方で，今もなお誰もが口にする1300余の箴言。６世紀頃につくられ，法・財・愛をテーマにインド的思考を結晶させた聖なる短詩 (ティルックラル) を，詳細な注釈で読み解く) and was published by Heibonsha,
Tokyo
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See also
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Tirukkural translations
Tirukkural, also known as the Kural, an ancient Indian treatise on the Secular ethics, ethics and morality of the commoner, is one of the List of literary works by number of translations, most widely translated non-religious works in the world. A ...
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List of Tirukkural translations by language
Tirukkural, also known as the Kural, is considered one of the most widely translated non-religious works in the world. As of 2020, the work has been translated into about 41 world languages. As of 2014, English language alone had about 57 versi ...
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Translations into Japanese