Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen. She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has been involved in the Japanese Literature Publishing Project(JLPP), a government-supported project translating and publishing Japanese books overseas.
Carpenter retired to Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband Bruce, professor emeritus of Tezukayama University. They have three children: Matthew Edwin Carpenter, Graham, and Mark.
Carpenter won the 2021-2022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature, with particular reference to her recent translation of Mizumura Minae’s An I-Novel (Columbia University Press, 2021)
An I-Novel, translated by Carpenter, won the 2019-20 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.
Her translation of The Great Passage by Miura Shion, an audio Book read by Brian Nishii, won the 2017 Golden Earphones Award.
Edited by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Yuko Aotani
Anthology
Pax Tokugawana: The Cultural Flowering of Japan, 1603-1853
Haga Tōru
Cultural History
"Kanken,” the Petition of Yamamoto Kakuma: An Annotated Translation
Yamamoto Kakuma
Treatise
The Kidai Shōran Scroll: Tokyo Street Life in the Edo Era
Ozawa Hiromu and Kobayashi Tadashi.
Art History
Heritage Culture and Business, Kyoto Style: Craftsmanship and the Creative Economy
Murayama Yuzo
Business
Other worksedit
Carpenter is also the author of the book Seeing Kyoto.
Referencesedit
Televised nostalgia in Japan: Those were the days
A translator's work from Abe to Zen/Professor continues wide-ranging literary pursuits with epic novel by Ryotaro Shiba
The Asian Bookshelf by Donald Richie: Blood, sweat and tears of Zen
Strange Moors: 'A True Novel,' by Minae Mizumura
December 18, 2023
juliet, winters, carpenter, born, 1948, american, translator, modern, japanese, literature, born, american, midwest, studied, japanese, literature, university, michigan, inter, university, center, japanese, language, studies, tokyo, after, completing, graduate. Juliet Winters Carpenter born 1948 is an American translator of modern Japanese literature Born in the American Midwest she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo After completing her graduate studies in 1973 she returned to Japan in 1975 where she became involved in translation efforts and teaching Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has been involved in the Japanese Literature Publishing Project JLPP a government supported project translating and publishing Japanese books overseas Carpenter retired to Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband Bruce professor emeritus of Tezukayama University They have three children Matthew Edwin Carpenter Graham and Mark Carpenter s translation of Abe Kobo s novel Secret Rendezvous Mikkai in Japanese won the 1980 Japan U S Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature Her translation of Minae Mizumura s novel Honkaku Shosetsu A True Novel won that same award for 2014 2015 and earned numerous other awards including the 2014 Lewis Galantiere Award of the American Translators Association Once Upon a Time in Japan a book of folk tales which she co translated with Roger Pulvers received the 2015 Gelett Burgess Children s Book Award for Best Multicultural Book Carpenter won the 2021 2022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature with particular reference to her recent translation of Mizumura Minae s An I Novel Columbia University Press 2021 An I Novel translated by Carpenter won the 2019 20 William F Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation Her translation of The Great Passage by Miura Shion an audio Book read by Brian Nishii won the 2017 Golden Earphones Award Selected worksTranslations editTitle Author TypeThe Ark Sakura Abe Kōbō NovelBeyond the Curve Abe Kōbō Short storiesSecret Rendezvous Abe Kōbō NovelJapanese Women Short Stories Yamamoto ShugorōThe Hunter Nonami Asa NovelUncommon Clay Sidney B Cardozo and Masaaki Hirano EssayMasks Enchi Fumiko NovelThe Quickening Field Hachikai Mimi PoetryBiruma Hiwa Satoko PoetryWaiting on the Weather Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa NogamiTeruyo MemoirShadow Family Miyabe Miyuki NovelMemories of Wind and Waves A Self Portrait of Lakeside Japan Saga Jun ichi Oral historyThe Last Shogun The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu Shiba Ryōtarō BiographyYou Were Born for a Reason Takamori Kentetsu Akehashi Daiji and Itō Kentarō Buddhist philosophySalad Anniversary Tawara Machi TankaAfter Wagō Ryōichi PoetryA Lost Paradise Watanabe Jun ichi NovelThe Sail of My Soul Yamaguchi Seishi HaikuEat Sleep Sit My Year at Japan s Most Rigorous Zen Temple Nonomura KaoruA Cappella Koike Mariko NovelJasmine Tsujihara Noboru NovelClouds above the Hill Shiba Ryōtarō Historical fictionA True Novel Minae Mizumura NovelOnce Upon a Time in Japan NHK Folk talesAn I Novel Minae Mizumura NovelThe Fall of Language in the Age of English Minae Mizumura EssayInheritance From Mother Minae Mizumura NovelThe Great Passage Miura Shion Audio BookGems of Japanese Literature Edited by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Yuko Aotani AnthologyPax Tokugawana The Cultural Flowering of Japan 1603 1853 Haga Tōru Cultural History Kanken the Petition of Yamamoto Kakuma An Annotated Translation Yamamoto Kakuma TreatiseThe Kidai Shōran Scroll Tokyo Street Life in the Edo Era Ozawa Hiromu and Kobayashi Tadashi Art HistoryHeritage Culture and Business Kyoto Style Craftsmanship and the Creative Economy Murayama Yuzo BusinessOther works editCarpenter is also the author of the book Seeing Kyoto References editTelevised nostalgia in Japan Those were the days A translator s work from Abe to Zen Professor continues wide ranging literary pursuits with epic novel by Ryotaro Shiba The Asian Bookshelf by Donald Richie Blood sweat and tears of Zen Strange Moors A True Novel by Minae Mizumura Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Juliet Winters Carpenter amp oldid 1120688015, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
