Kenneth Strong (translator)
Kenneth Lionel Chatterton Strong | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 June 1925 |
| Died | 7 December 1990 (aged 65) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oxford University SOAS University of London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Japanese |
| Institutions | Tokyo Woman's Christian University University of Sydney SOAS University of London |
Kenneth Lionel Chatterton Strong (27 June 1925 – 7 December 1990) was a British scholar and translator of Japanese novels.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Strong was educated at Oxford University and SOAS University of London. He received a BA in Classics in 1947 and a MA in 1957 from the former institution and a BA in Japanese in 1951 and a BA in English in 1957 from the latter.[3]
Strong served in the Royal Navy[4] and arrived in Japan in 1946 as part of Allied forces. He was assistant professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University between 1959 and 1962[5] and lecturer at University of Sydney between 1963 and 1964.[3] Strong returned to England in 1964 and worked as a lecturer in Japanese at SOAS University of London from 1964 to 1980.[1] During this time he published several praised translations of notable Japanese novels.[3][6][7][8][9]
Strong married in 1953 and had a daughter and a son.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Ox against the storm : a biography of Tanaka Shozo - Japan's conservationist pioneer (Paul Norbury Publications, 1977) about Shōzō Tanaka
Translations
[edit]- Kitamura Tokoku, "Shukkonkyō", or The Magic Mirror (Monumenta Nipponica, vol 21, No. 3/4, 1966)
- Fumio Niwa, The Buddha Tree : a novel (Tuttle, 1968)
- Kenjiro Tokutomi, Footprints in the Snow ( (Tuttle, 1970)
- Kinoshita Naoe, Pillar of Fire : Hi no hashira (Allen and Unwin, 1972)
- Toson Shimazaki, The Broken Commandment (University of Tokyo Press, 1974)
- Takeo Arishima, A Certain Woman (University of Tokyo Press, 1978)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gerstle, Andrew; Cummings, Alan (2016). "SOAS, University of London". In Cortazzi, Hugh; Kornicki, Peter (eds.). Japanese Studies in Britain : A survey and history. Kent: Renaissance books. ISBN 978-1-898823-58-2.
Kenneth Strong (1925–1990) completed a BA in Japanese at SOAS in 1951 and then later taught at SOAS from 1964 to 1980. He published Ox against the storm (1977), a biography of Japan's conservationist pioneer Tanaka Shōzō, and several highly regarded translations of modern fiction: Niwa Fumio's The Buddha tree (1966), Tokutomi Kenjirō's Footprints in the snow (1970), Kinoshita Naoe's Pillar of fire (1972), Shimazaki Tōson's The broken commandment (1974) and Arishima Takeo's A certain woman (1978)
- ^ "Kenneth Strong (1925-1990)" (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ a b c d The Academic Who's Who 1973-1974: University Teachers in the British Isles in Arts, Education and Social Sciences. London: Adam & Charles Black. p. 446.
- ^ "British Military lists". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "Kenneth Lionel Chatterton Strong". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ Powell, Brian (1975). "Footprints in the Snow. A Novel of Meiji Japan by Tokutomi Kenjiro, translated by Strong Kenneth. Allen & Unwin, Ltd: London, 1970. Pp. 372". Modern Asian Studies. 9 (2): 274–278. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00005047. JSTOR 311967. S2CID 145603551. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ Yamanouchi, Hisaaki (1973). "Kinoshita Naoe: Pillar of fire: Hi no hashira. Translated from the Japanese by Kenneth Strong. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series; UNESCO Asian Fiction Series, 6.) 200 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972. £2.95". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 36 (1): 185–186. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00098530. JSTOR 613158. S2CID 162692043. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ McClellan, Edwin (1975). "The Broken Commandment. By Shimazaki Toson, translated by Kenneth Strong. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1974. 249 pp/. \2,800". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 2 (1): 169–171. doi:10.2307/132046. JSTOR 132046. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ McClain, Yoko (1980). "A Certain Woman. By Arishima Takeo, Translated by Kenneth Strong. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978. 382 pp. Introduction, Notes on Personal Titles, Translation. $19.50". The Journal of Asian Studies. 39 (2): 357–359. doi:10.2307/2054308. JSTOR 2054308. S2CID 161514335. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
