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Burton Watson (born 1925) is one of the world's best[1] translators of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities He has received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1981[2] for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o. The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is an annual award given to outstanding Translations into the English language. Su Shi ( 1037–1101 was a writer, poet, Artist, calligrapher, Pharmacologist, and Statesman of the Song Dynasty

Watson was born in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle ( French: Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in the south-east portion of the U He dropped out of high school at age 17 to join the Navy in 1943 and was stationed on repair vessels in the South Pacific. His first experiences in Japan came of weekly shore leaves when he was stationed on a ship at Yokosuka Harbor in 1945. is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. It is located at the mouth of Tokyo Bay in the Miura Peninsula, and the city stretches across Susequently, he majored in Chinese and Japanese studies at Columbia University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. In 1951[3] he returned to Kyoto, this time as a Ford Foundation Overseas Fellow[2]. In 1956 he completed a dissertation on Sima Qian, earning a Ph. Early life and education Sima Qian was born and grew up in Longmen, near present-day Hancheng Shaanxi. D. from Columbia University. [1] He worked as an English teacher at Doshisha University in Kyoto, as a research assistant to Yoshikawa Kōjirō, who was Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Kyoto University[4], and as a member of Ruth Fuller Sasaki's team translating Buddhist texts into English[1]. or is a major national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of Ruth Fuller Sasaki (Oct 31 1892-Oct 24 1967 born Ruth Fuller was an important figure in the development of Buddhism in the United States He has also taught at Stanford and Columbia as a professor of Chinese. He moved to Japan in 1973, where he remains to this day, and has devoted much of his time to translation.

Notable translations include:

Much of Burton Watson's translations have been published through the Columbia University Press. The Analects ( also known as the Analects of Confucius, are a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher The Tale of the Heike ( Heike monogatari, 平家物語 is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto Clans was the Pen-name of a Japanese author and Haiku Poet. He is known for his Free verse haiku. Mori Ogai 's classical Novel, The Wild Geese or The Wild Goose (1911–13 雁 Gan) was first published in serial form in ( 17 February, 1862 – 8 July, 1922) was a Japanese Physician, translator Novelist and Poet. The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma (Sanskrit sa सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र Saddharma The Records of the Grand Historian, also known in English by the Chinese name 史記 or Shiji, written from 109 BC to 91 BC Saigyō Hōshi ( Japanese: 西行法師 (1118 - 1190 was a famous Japanese Poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period The Zuo Zhuan ( translated as the Chronicle of Zuo or the Commentary of Zuo, is the earliest Chinese work of narrative history and is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories and founder of several educational (1758–1831 was a quiet and eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a Hermit. is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories and founder of several educational is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories and founder of several educational Hanshan ( fl 9th century) was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and For the book with the same name see Zhuangzi (book Zhuangzi ( was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th The Records of the Grand Historian, also known in English by the Chinese name 史記 or Shiji, written from 109 BC to 91 BC Columbia University Press is a University press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

He and colleague Professor Donald Keene frequently attend and participate in the seminars of William Theodore DeBary given to students at Columbia University. Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6 1922 in New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar teacher writer translator and interpreter of

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Stirling 2006, pg. 92
  2. ^ a b Ahadada Books-Burton Watson. Retrieved on 2008-06-03. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering
  3. ^ Halper 1991, pg. 53
  4. ^ Harvard University Press: An Introduction to Sung Poetry by Kojiro Yoshikawa. Retrieved on 2009-06-01. This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected

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