Chimako Tada
Chimako Tada 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.
Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as tanka and haiku, as well as contemporary prose poetry.
Selected works
Volumes of poetry
- Hanabi
- Tōgijo
- Bara uchū
- Kagami no machi arui wa me no mori
- Nise no nendai ki
- Tada Chimako shishū
- Suien: Tada Chimako kashū
- Hasu kuibito
- Kiryō
- Hafuribi
- Teihon Tada Chimako shishū
- Kawa no hotori ni
- Nagai kawa no aru kuni
- Kaze no katami
- Fū o kiru to
- Yūsei no hito: Tada Chimako kashū
English translations
- Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose, translated by Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus
- Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles
Translations from French into Japanese
- Hadorianusu tei no kaisō by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1964.
- San-Jon Perusu shishū by Saint-John Perse. Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1967.
- Revi-Sutorōsu to no taiwa by Georges Charbonnier. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1970.
- Hariogabarusu: Mata wa taikan seru anākisuto by Antonin Artaud. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1977.
- Tōhō kitan by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1980.
- Raion by Joseph Kessel. Tokyo: Nihon Buritanika, 1981.
- Hi by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1983.
- Tsumibito by Julien Green. Co-translated with Inoue Saburō. Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 1983.
- Piranēji no kuoi nōzui by Marguerite Yourcenar. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1985.