Washed by the Waves of Waka Bay: Translating the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
Channel: Exploring Premodern Japan
Date: 2022-05-17

With Thomas McAuley, 
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:24 What are uta’awase (poetry contests)?
2:10 How does a poetry contest work?
5:29 Records of poetry contests
6:31 Translating the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
14:27 Traditional recitation 
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Books:
(2021) Sanekata-shū: The Personal Poetry Collection of Fujiwara no Sanekata (Revised Edition), Sheffield: www.wakapoetry.net.
(2019) The Poetry Competition in Six Hundred Rounds: A Translation and Commentary. Leiden: Brill
(2016) An Anthology of Classical Japanese Poetry: From Man'yōshū to Shinkokinshū, Sheffield: www.wakapoetry.net.
(2016) Two Hundred Poem Sequences: The Entō Onhyakushu and Keiun Hyakushu, Sheffield: www.wakapoetry.net
 
Articles:
(2020) ‘The Power of Translation: Issues in the translation of premodern Japanese waka’. Waseda RILAS Journal 8: 1-19.
(2019) ‘A Fine Thing for the Way: Evidence, Counter-Evidence and Argument in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds’ Japan Forum.
(2016) ‘Viewing a Myriad Leaves: Man’yō Botanical Gardens in Japan’ International Journal of Contents Tourism 1 (2): 1-16.
(2015) ‘Audience Attitude and Translation Reception: The Case of Genji Monogatari’ Babel: The International Journal of Translation Studies 61 (2): 219-241.