Edwin Cranston

Edwin Augustus Cranston
Born
Edwin Cranston

(1932-10-10)October 10, 1932
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedDecember 8, 2021
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Stanford University
Academic work
DisciplineJapanese literature

Edwin Augustus Cranston (1932–2021) was a Professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Harvard University. His primary research interest was the classical literature of Japan, especially traditional poetic forms. He received the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 1992 for his translation A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Vol I.[1]

History

Born on October 18, 1932,[2] Cranston was raised on a farm in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, until the age of ten, when he moved to Arizona with his parents. He graduated from Tucson High School and received his B.A. in English from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1954. He served four years in the United States Navy where he was a journalist and served on the USS Princeton (CV-37).[3][4][5] He then began graduate study in 1958 at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1962 he transferred to Stanford University and in 1966 earned a Ph.D. there in Japanese literature. He entered the Harvard University faculty in 1965.

Contributions to Japan Studies

Cranston's career has centered around the translation and writing of poetry.

His dissertation, a translation of and commentary on the Izumi Shikibu diary, was published in 1969 in the Harvard-Yenching Monograph series as The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court and remains the authoritative English version.[6]

In 1993, Stanford University Press released the first of his proposed six-volume anthology of classical Japanese poetry. Titled A Waka Anthology, Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup,[7] it was awarded a prize[8] by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission[9] and followed in 2006 by A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance.[10] In 2009, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the government of Japan.[11]

Cranston has also translated the work of poet Mizuno Ruriko.

References

  1. ^ "Archive of past prize winners for the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Donald Keene Center. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  2. ^ Edwin A. CRANSTON. Curriculum Vitae. online, accessed 15 May 2009. Archived 2009-04-06 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ "Tucsonan Wed In Shinto Shrine", The Arizona Daily Star, volume 119, number 250, September 6, 1960, sec. C, p. 1.
  4. ^ "Cranston", Tucson Daily Citizen, volume 84, number 97, April 23, 1956, p. 28.
  5. ^ "Arizona Navy Men, Marines Take Part In SEATO Action", The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, 66th year, number 205, p. 14.
  6. ^ "Izumi Shikibu". February 12, 2007. Archived from the original on 12 February 2007.
  7. ^ "A Waka Anthology: Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup - Translated, with a Commentary and Notes, by Edwin A. Cranston". www.sup.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
  8. ^ "Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies: RIJS People". www.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-01-17.
  9. ^ http://www.jusfc.gov/index.asp
  10. ^ "A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance - Translated, with a Commentary, Appendixes, and Notes, by Edwin A. Cranston". Archived from the original on 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
  11. ^ Harvard Gazette: Japanese government honors Professor Edwin A. Cranston. 14 May 2009.

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