Richard Okada

Hideki Richard Okada (2 July 1945 – 4 April 2012^[1]) was Professor of Japanese at Princeton University, in the East Asian Studies Department. He was a specialist in the Tale of Genji, and his most recent work has been editing a three-volume collection of academic essays about the novel. His doctoral degree was from the University of California, Berkeley.

His 1977 doctoral thesis, Sagoromo monogatari: a study and partial translation,^[2] has been called "one of the most important contributions to the study of classical Japanese narrative to have emerged in the last twenty years " by Richard Bowring of the University of Cambridge.^[3]

He died of natural causes on 4 April 2012 in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.^[4]

Publications

Books

• Okada, H. Richard. Figures of resistance: language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8223-1185-2 In over 200 North American academic libraries, according to WorldCat ^[5]
• Okada, H. Richard, ed. The Tale of Genji. London: Routledge, 2009.3 vols. ISBN 978-0-415-47900-4

Other publications

• 『地球／惑星文学としての物語の可能性と行方』(“ The Possibility and Future of monogatari as Planetary Literature”),
• “The Possibility and Impossibility of Zainichi in GO,”
• 『翻訳・コスモロジー・ジェンダー』 (“Translation, Cosmology, and Gender”).
• "Domesticating the Tale of Genji, by Richard H. Okada 1990 Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1990), pp. 60-70 JStor
• "Translation and Difference--A Review Article" Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 29-40 JSTOR
• "Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicities" in Miyoshi, Masao. Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Durham [u.a.]: Duke University Press, 2002. p. 190-205

References

External links

• Official CV