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    Hiroaki Sato

    Hiroaki Sato is a translator of Japanese poetry and prose, classical and modern, who has won a PEN Translation Prize and two Japanese-U.S. Friendship Commission translation prizes. A newspaper and magazine columnist for forty years, particularly for The Japan Times, he is also a book reviewer and contributes essays to many publications. His nonfiction book On Haiku (“a treasure”—Books on Asia) and his translation of Sakutaro Hagiwara’s The Iceland are both published by New Directions. He is also the author of the recent A Bridge of Words: Views across America and Japan.

    Hiroaki Sato

    Hiroaki Sato is a translator of Japanese poetry and prose, classical and modern, who has won a PEN Translation Prize and two Japanese-U.S. Friendship Commission translation prizes. A newspaper and magazine columnist for forty years, particularly for The Japan Times, he is also a book reviewer and contributes essays to many publications. His nonfiction book On Haiku (“a treasure”—Books on Asia) and his translation of Sakutaro Hagiwara’s The Iceland are both published by New Directions. He is also the author of the recent A Bridge of Words: Views across America and Japan.

    Books by Hiroaki Sato

    • On Haiku

      Hiroaki Sato

      Paperback, 2018

      Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English” (Gary Snyder)

    • On Haiku

      Hiroaki Sato

      E Book, 2018

      Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English” (Gary Snyder)

    • Bathhouse and Other Tanka

      Ishii Tatsuhiko, Hiroaki Sato

      Paperback, 2023

      The first US publication by the legendary tanka master of love, homoerotic desire and destruction

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