Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

7/1/1985 - 8/31/1986

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$35,000.00 (approved)
$30,000.00 (awarded)


Translation and Study of an Early Modernist Japanese Work

FAIN: RL-20712-85

University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195-1016)
Jay Rubin (Project Director: July 1984 to October 1990)

To support the translation of the modern Japanese novel THE MINER (Kofu, 1908) by the major writer Natsume Soseki. The completed translation will give Western readers a clearer sense of the original and the achievements of modern Japanese prose fiction.