Inuhiko Yomota
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is a Japanese author, cultural essayist, translator and film historian. His real name is .
, Hyōgo Prefecture
, but grew up in Tokyo
. He graduated from the University of Tokyo
in religious studies, and continued in graduate school there to study comparative literature and culture. After finishing graduate school, he traveled the world as a guest professor and researcher at Konkuk University
in South Korea, Columbia University
in the United States, the University of Bologna
in Italy, Tel Aviv University
in Israel and Pristina University
in Kosovo
. He is currently a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University
. He is married to Chie Tarumi, a scholar of Taiwanese literature
during the Japanese occupation
.
His main area of study is film history, particularly the history of film in Asian countries, and organizes a yearly symposium on differing topics in film history. His other areas of study include art, cooking, literature, manga, music, cultural minorities, foreign language, and foreign countries (especially Korea).
Inuhiko Yomota has published nearly eighty books since the beginning of his career and has won several literary prizes for his work, including the Kodansha
Essay Prize. He has also translated works by American and Palestinian authors into Japanese.
Biography
Inuhiko Yomota was born on February 20, 1953 in NishinomiyaNishinomiya, Hyogo
is a city located in Hyōgo, Japan, between the cities of Ōsaka and Kōbe. On April 1, 2005, the city of Nishinomiya celebrated its 80th anniversary. It is best known as the home of Kōshien Stadium, where the Hanshin Tigers baseball team plays home games and where Japan's annual high school baseball...
, Hyōgo Prefecture
Hyogo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...
, but grew up in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
. He graduated from the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
in religious studies, and continued in graduate school there to study comparative literature and culture. After finishing graduate school, he traveled the world as a guest professor and researcher at Konkuk University
Konkuk University
Konkuk University is a private university located in Seoul and Chungju. The Seoul campus is located in the southeastern part of Seoul, near the Han River, and is served by a metro station of the same name. The university possesses accreditation from the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Education...
in South Korea, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in the United States, the University of Bologna
University of Bologna
The Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating university in the world, the word 'universitas' being first used by this institution at its foundation. The true date of its founding is uncertain, but believed by most accounts to have been 1088...
in Italy, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
in Israel and Pristina University
Pristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....
in Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
. He is currently a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University
Meiji Gakuin University
is one of the Christian universities in Tokyo and Yokohama which was established in 1863. The Reverend Dr. James Curtis Hepburn was one of the founders and the first president...
. He is married to Chie Tarumi, a scholar of Taiwanese literature
Literature of Taiwan
Taiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese, which can use any language ever used generally in Taiwan, like Japanese, Taiwanese, Taiwanese Mandarin.- Novels, short stories, and poetry :...
during the Japanese occupation
Taiwan under Japanese rule
Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan was a dependency of the Empire of Japan. The expansion into Taiwan was a part of Imperial Japan's general policy of southward expansion during the late 19th century....
.
His main area of study is film history, particularly the history of film in Asian countries, and organizes a yearly symposium on differing topics in film history. His other areas of study include art, cooking, literature, manga, music, cultural minorities, foreign language, and foreign countries (especially Korea).
Inuhiko Yomota has published nearly eighty books since the beginning of his career and has won several literary prizes for his work, including the Kodansha
Kodansha
, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...
Essay Prize. He has also translated works by American and Palestinian authors into Japanese.
Publications
- 1980: Ryumiēru no tatakai-eiga e no zenshinteki yokubō (リュミエールの閾―映画への漸進的欲望)
- 1983: Eizō no shōkan---Essay Cinematographique (映像の招喚―エッセ・シネマトグラフィック)
- 1984: Eizō yōri (映像要理), Critique (クリティック)
- 1985: Hito sore wo eiga to yobu (人それを映画と呼ぶ)
- 1986: Eiga ha mō sugu hyakusai ni naru (映画はもうすぐ百歳になる)
- 1987: Warera ga "tasha" suru Kankoku (われらが「他者」なる韓国), Kishu to tensei (貴種と転生), Shokutaku no ue no chiisa na konton (食卓の上の小さな渾沌)
- 1988: Kanjō kyōiku (感情教育), Jojishi no kennō (叙事詩の権能), Mō hitori no tenshi---Nostalgia to shūshū wo meguru 48 no seisatsu (もうひとりの天使―ノスタルジアと蒐集をめぐる48の省察)
- 1991: Oukenbon---papers '89~'90 (黄犬本papers ’89~’90)
- 1992: Lu XunLu XunLu Xun or Lu Hsün , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren , one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese...
---mezamete hito ha doko e iku ka (ningen monogatari) (魯迅―めざめて人はどこへ行くか (にんげんの物語)), Tsukishima monogatari (月島物語), Ekkyō no ressun---higashi Ajia no genzai - itsutsu no taiwa (越境のレッスン―東アジアの現在・五つの対話), Matsu koto no yorokobi (待つことの悦び), Eiga no ufufu (映画のウフフッ) - 1993: Doll's House no eigakan (ドルズ・ハウスの映画館), Yomu koto no anima---kodomobeya no sekai bungaku (読むことのアニマ―子供部屋の世界文学), Den'ei fūun (電影風雲), Akainu hon---papers '91~'92 (赤犬本―papers ’91~’92), Bungakuteki kioku (文学的記憶)
- 1994: Kaihi to kōdei (回避と拘泥), Manga genron (漫画原論)
- 1996: Kūsō ryokō no shūjigaku---"Garibā ryokōki" ron (空想旅行の修辞学―『ガリヴァー旅行記』論), Kishu to tensei --- Nakagami Kenji (貴種と転生・中上健次), OdysseusOdysseusOdysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
no kikan (オデュッセウスの帰還) - 1998: Eigashi e no shōtai (映画史への招待), Kokoro tokimekasu (心ときめかす)
- 1999: Hoshi to tomo ni hashiru---nisshi 1979-1997 (星とともに走る―日誌1979-1997), Ōkami ga kuru zo! (狼が来るぞ!), Nihon eiga no radikaru na ishi (日本映画のラディカルな意志), 21-seiki wo mezasu korian firumu (21世紀をめざすコリアンフィルム), Tabi no ōsama (旅の王様)
- 2000: Nihon eigashi 100-nen (日本映画史100年), Morokko rutaku (モロッコ流謫), Nihon no joyū---Nihon no 50-nen Nihon no 200-nen(日本の女優---日本の50年日本の200年), Kedamono to watashi (けだものと私), Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
to shobutsu (マルコ・ポーロと書物), Tetsugaku shokan (哲学書簡) - 2001: Souru no fūkei---kioku to henbō (ソウルの風景―記憶と変貌), High School - Bookish Life (ハイスクール・ブッキッシュライフ), Ajia no naka no Nihon eiga (アジアのなかの日本映画)
- 2003: Daisuki na Kankoku (大好きな韓国), Eiga to hyōshō fukanōsei (映画と表象不可能性), Ajia eiga to taishūteki sōzōryoku (アジア映画の大衆的想像力), Mametsu no uta (摩滅の賦)
- 2004: High School 1968 (ハイスクール1968), Yubi ga tsuki wo sasu toki, gusha ha yubi wo miru---Sekai no mei serifu 50 (指が月をさすとき、愚者は指を見る―世界の名科白50), Shirato SanpeiSanpei Shirato, known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as his realistic drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of gekiga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist...
ron (白土三平論), Kokoro ha korogaru ishi no yō ni---Papers 2003-2004 (心は転がる石のように―Papers 2003‐2004), Kōkai no mae no dokusho (航海の前の読書) - 2005: Rabelais no kodomotachi (ラブレーの子供たち), Miru koto no shio---Paresuchina/Serubia kikō (見ることの塩-パレスチナ・セルビア紀行), Bruce LeeBruce LeeBruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...
---Li Xiaolong no eikō to kodoku (ブルース・リー―李小龍の栄光と孤独) - 2006: "Kawaii" ron (「かわいい」論), Paresuchina nau---Sensō/eiga/ningen (パレスチナ・ナウ―戦争・映画・人間)
- 2007: Sensei to watashi (先生とわたし), Ningen wo mamoru dokusho (人間を守る読書), Hon'yaku to zasshin---Dulcinea blanca (翻訳と雑神―Dulcinea blanca), Nihon no marāno bungaku---Dulcinea roja (日本のマラーノ文学-Dulcinea roja), Nihon eiga to sengo no shinwa (日本映画と戦後の神話), Tsukishima monogatari futatabi (月島物語ふたたび), Roba to sūpu---papers 2005-2007 (驢馬とスープ―papers 2005-2007)
- 2008: Yomota Inuhiko no hikkoshi jinsei (四方田犬彦の引っ越し人生)
Compilation & editing
- 1999: Eiga kantoku Mizoguchi KenjiKenji MizoguchiKenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...
(映画監督溝口健二) - 2001: Li XianglanYoshiko Otaka, is a China-born Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States. By the 1940s, she became one of the Seven great singing stars...
to higashi Ajia (李香蘭と東アジア), The Greatest Hits of Hiraoka Masaaki (ザ・グレーテスト・ヒッツ・オブ・平岡正明) - 2003: Ajia eiga (アジア映画)
- 2004: Yoshida Yoshishige no Zentaizō (吉田喜重の全体像)
- 2006: Joyū Yamaguchi MomoeMomoe Yamaguchiis a former Japanese singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980. In that time, she became one of the most notable singers in Japanese music, and an acclaimed actress. She withdrew from the entertainment business at the peak of her career to marry her frequent costar, fellow...
(女優山口百恵)
Translations
- 1979: Shikō taiken---jiko jigen no tame no shinrigaku (至高体験 -自己実現のための心理学) - originally by Colin WilsonColin WilsonColin Henry Wilson is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.- Early biography:Born and...
, collaboration with Kimiyoshi Yura - 1989: Yūga na emono (優雅な獲物) - originally by Paul BowlesPaul BowlesPaul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...
- 1995: Kumo no ie: Paul Bowles sakuhinshū (蜘蛛の家-ポール・ボウルズ作品集), Tomaru koto naku - Paul Bowles jiden (止まることなく―ポール・ボウルズ自伝) - originally by Paul Bowles
- 1999: Paresuchina e kaeru (パレスチナへ帰る) - originally by Edward SaidEdward SaidEdward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
- 2002: Merodoramateki sōzōryoku (メロドラマ的想像力) - originally by Peter BrooksPeter BrooksPeter Brooks is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the...
, collaboration with Keiko Kimura - 2006: Shishū---kabe ni egaku (詩集 壁に描く) - originally by Mahmoud DarwishMahmoud DarwishMahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet...
External links
- Inuhiko Yomota's faculty webpage @ Meiji Gakuin University
- Interview with Prof.Yomota. http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/inuhiko_yomota.shtml