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Haruko Ichikawa

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Haruko Ichikawa (Japanese: 市河晴子 or 市川晴子) (1896–1943)[1] was a Japanese writer.

Life

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She was the wife of Sanki Ichikawa [ja][2] and the grand-daughter of Viscount Shibusawa.[3] She died on 5 December 1943.[4]

Works

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A new edition of some of her writings was edited by Hiromi Takatō and published by Soryusha in 2022.[5][6][7]

Japanese Lady in Europe

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Japanese Lady in Europe[8] is a book written by Haruko Ichikawa, translated by Shigeo Inouyé (Japanese: 井上思外雄),[9][10] and edited by William Plomer, which was published by Jonathan Cape in London, and E. P. Dutton in New York, in 1937. It is a translation into English of the book Obei No Sumizumi (Japanese: 欧米の隅々) (English: "Every Nook and Corner of Europe and America"),[11] published by Kenkyūsha in 1933.

The book was reviewed by The Guardian,[12] Time,[13] The New York Times,[14] The London Mercury,[15] the Wilson Bulletin for Librarians,[16] The New Statesman,[17] The Tanager,[18] Travel[19] the Saturday Review of Literature,[20] The Commonweal,[21] World Review,[22] Now & Then,[23] The Living Age,[24] Time and Tide,[25] Great Britain and the East[26] The Listener,[27] The Spectator,[28] Asia,[29] The Sydney Morning Herald,[30] The Age,[31] and the Argus.[32]

In 1938, Shigeo Inouyé was awarded the 7th Okakura Prize (Japanese: 岡倉賞) for his translation.[9][33]

Japanese Lady in America

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Japanese Lady in America is a book written by Haruko Ichikawa and first published 1938. It was published by Kenkyūsha in Tokyo.[34] It is a translation into English of the book Beikoku No Tabi, Nihon No Tabi (Japanese: 米国の旅日本の旅).

It was reviewed by the Japan Times[35] and the Japan Christian Quarterly.[36][37]

Extracts were published, by Kenkyūsha in Tokyo, under the title American Pilgrimage, edited with notes by Arundell del Re.[38][39]

References

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  • Claire Zebroski Mamola. "Ichikawa, Haruko 1896-". Japanese Women Writers in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing. New York and London. 1989. Paragraphs 296 and 297 at pp 175 to 177.
  • Review of "Japanese Lady in Europe" in The Times
  1. Japanese lady in America, by Haruko Ichikawa (Mrs. Sanki Ichikawa). National Diet Library.
  2. K W. "The Impressions of a Japanese Lady in Europe". The New York Times. 18 July 1937.
  3. "Tokyo's Home Life Calm in Wartime". The New York Times. 23 January 1938.
  4. Yoshihiko Mukoyama. "Sanki Ichikawa (1886-1670)" (sic). Browning Study in Japan: A Historical Survey with a Comprehensive Bibliography. Maeno Publishing Company. Tokyo. p 120 at p 182. Google
  5. 渋沢栄一の孫が見た欧米諸国。女性ならではの細やかな視点で書かれた欧米の生活~『欧米の隅々 市河晴子紀行文集』【サンキュータツオが読む】. Fujin Kōron. 18 February 2023.
  6. [読書]紀行 市河晴子著高遠弘美編 欧米の隅々 旅の見聞 鮮やかに言語化. Okinawa Times. 24 December 2022.
  7. 自由闊達な女性とはこの人なり 〈飽くなき新経験の蒐集家〉が往く. Book Bang. 24 November 2022. From Shinchosha.
  8. Japanese Lady in Europe. E P Dutton. 1937.
  9. 1 2 Now & Then: A Journal of Books and Personalities. Winter 1938. p 19.
  10. Also transliterated Inouye or Inoue
  11. Browning the World Over (1933) 36 The Baylor Bulletin. Numbers 3 and 4: September 1933.
  12. Basil de Sélincourt, "A Japanese Looks at Europe", The Guardian, 12 February 1937, p 7.
  13. Books: Japan’s Provincial Lady. Time. 19 July 1937.
  14. Robert van Gelder. "An Early Traveler" in "Books of the Times". The New York Times. 22 July 1937. p 17.
  15. Marie Scott-James, "A Citizen of the World" in "New Literature" (1937) 35 The London Mercury incorporating The Bookman 427 (No 208: February 1937)
  16. (1937) 12 Wilson Bulletin for Librarians 100 and 287 (October and December 1937)
  17. "Books in General" in "Current Literature". The New Statesman and Nation. 23 January 1937. p 121.
  18. "Europe in Similie" (1937) The Tanager, vols 13 to 15, p 29.
  19. "Japanese Lady in Europe" in "Traveling between Covers" (1937) 70 Travel, No 1: November 1937, p 49
  20. Florence Ayscough, "An Original Travel Diary" (1937) 16 Saturday Review of Literature, 17 July 1937, p 7
  21. "Quotable" (1937) 26 The Commonweal 370 (No 15: 6 August 1937)
  22. "Shorter Notices" in "International Bookshelf" (1937) 3 World Review 70 (No 1: March 1937)
  23. "A Japanese Travel Diary". Now & Then: A Journal of Books and Personalities. Spring 1937. p 8.
  24. (1937) 353 The Living Age 280
  25. "Traveller to the West" (1937) 18 Time and Tide 206 (18 February 1937)
  26. (1937) 48 Great Britain and the East 264 (18 February 1937)
  27. (1937) 17 The Listener 572 (24 March 1937)
  28. Christopher Sykes, "A Bewildering Lady" in "Books of the Day" (1937) 158 The Spectator 180 (No 5,666: 29 January 1937)
  29. 37 Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association 656
  30. "A Japanese Lady in Europe: Interesting Travel-diary". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 February 1937. p 2.
  31. "A Book to Read". The Age, Melbourne. 3 April 1937. p 14.
  32. "Through Eastern Eyes". The Argus, Melbourne. 13 March 1937. p 35.
  33. Tomo-o Endo, 「岡倉賞」・「岡倉英語教育賞」受賞者 および岡倉由三郎追悼記事 (2005) Historical English Studies in Japan (ISSN 0386-9490), No 37, p 47. (On J-STAGE).
  34. Japanese Lady in America. Google Books
  35. "Japanese Lady Speaks . . . ." in "Book Reviews" (1939) 2 The Japan Times Weekly 102
  36. Charma M Covell, "Japanese Lady in America" in T T Brumbaugh (ed), "Book Reviews" (1939) 14 Japan Christian Quarterly 256 (No 3: July 1939)
  37. For other commentary on this book, see Clark, Travels in the New South, 1962, p 56; and Mamola, Japanese Women Writers in English Translation, 1989, para 296.
  38. American Pilgrimage
  39. Monumenta Nipponica, p 695-335