was a Japanese poet 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.Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as tanka and haiku, 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 Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1964. San-Jon Perusu shishū (Poésies de Saint-John Perse) by Saint-John Perse. 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. Tokyo: Nihon Buritanika, 1981. Hi (Feux) by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1983. Tsumibito (Le malfaiteur) by Julien Green. 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 at Poets.org