{{Short description|Japanese poet and writer (1930–2003)}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Chimako Tada | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|4|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Tokyo, Japan | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|1|23|1930|4|6|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = Poet, translator, academic | period = 1930–2003 | genre = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = }} {{Nihongo|'''Chimako Tada'''|多田智満子|Tada Chimako|April 1, 1930 – January 23, 2003}} was a Japanese poet renowned for her surreal style and evocation of women's experience in post-war Japan.<ref name=kotobank>{{cite web|title=Tada Chimako|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A4%9A%E7%94%B0%E6%99%BA%E6%BA%80%E5%AD%90|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten Plus|publisher=Kodansha|accessdate=19 September 2012}}</ref> She authored more than 15 books of Japanese poetry, and also translated prose and poetry from French.<ref>Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.</ref> Tada wrote in traditional styles, such as tanka and haiku, as well as contemporary prose poetry.<ref>Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems and Prose. Trans. Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, and Kerstin Vidaeus. Rochester, Michigan: Katydid Books, 1990.</ref>
==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== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1992 Tada Chimako, Profile] at Poets.org
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