Howard Hibbett （b. 1920）is a translator and professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He held the Victor S. Thomas Professorship in Japanese Literature.

Hibbett began his studies of Japanese as a sophomore at Harvard College 1942 before working as a language specialist for the US Army in 1942-46. After graduating from Harvard College in 1947, he went on to receive his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1950. He taught at UCLA before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1958. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University is a research center focusing on Japan. It provides a forum for stimulating scholarly and public interest....

 from 1985 through 1988.

Seven Japanese Tales, published in 1963, helped introduce the English-speaking world to Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Japanese literature

Japanese literature

Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...

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His publications include studies and translations of Edo and modern literature. He is particularly known for his translations of Tanizaki and works on Japanese language teaching.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Howard Hibbett, OCLC

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 encompasses roughly 90+ works in 200+ publications in 5 languages and 4,000+ library holdings.

• The Floating World in Japanese Fiction (1959)
• Seven Japanese tales (1963)
• Modern Japanese; a Basic Reader (1965)
• Contemporary Japanese Literature: an Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing since 1945 (1977)
• The Chrystanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns (2002)

Translations

• Quicksand
  Quicksand (novel)
  is a novel by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was written in serial format between 1928 and 1930 for the magazine Kaizō. The last of Tanizaki's major novels translated into English, it concerns a four-way bisexual love affair between upper-crust Osakans.-Title:The Japanese title, Manji,...
  
  by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. Review
• The Key
  The Key (Tanizaki novel)
  The Key , is a novel written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in 1956. The story was translated into English by Howard Hibbett and published by Vintage International Books.-Synopsis:...
  
  ; and Diary of a Mad Old Man by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Review
• Seven Japanese Tales by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki