#WorldKidLit Month Focus on Japan: Ten Years After Are You an Echo?

Posted on by Avery Fischer Udagawa

Today’s post comes to you from David Jacobson: This September marks ten years since the publication of Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko edited and translated from the Japanese by David Jacobson, Sally Ito, and Michiko Tsuboi, illustrated  by Toshikado Hajiri (Chin Music Press, 2016).  At the time of the release, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Month Focus on Japan: Ten Years After Are You an Echo?

The Compassionate Imagination – Sally Ito on Translating Misuzu Kaneko

Posted on by David Jacobson

May GLLI Blog Series:  Japan in Translation, No. 14 Editor's note:  When I approached Canadian poet/translator Sally Ito about acting as translator for Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko, she and her aunt Michiko Tsuboi, her co-translator, had already translated at least a dozen of Misuzu's poems on their own.  The … Continue reading The Compassionate Imagination – Sally Ito on Translating Misuzu Kaneko