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 was 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]

On 20 May 2017, an independent report commissioned by St. Paul's School named Okada as one of thirteen adults at the school against whom substantiated instances of sexual misconduct had been documented.[5]

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[6]
  • 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

  1. ↑ "Okada, H. Richard". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Sagoromo monogatari : a study and partial translation. (Book, 1977). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 29531876.
  3. ↑ The Ise monogatari: A Short Cultural History Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 401-480
  4. ↑ Saxon, Jamie. "Richard Okada, Princeton scholar of East Asian studies and mentor, dies". News at Princeton. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Read the full report on sexual misconduct at St. Paul's School - the Boston Globe".
  6. ↑ Figures of resistance : language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts (Book, 1991). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 23384982.
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