Juliet Winters Carpenter
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Juliet Winters Carpenter is an award-winning translator of modern Japanese literature into English. Born in the American Mid-West, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. After a stint at the Inter-University Centre for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo, she completed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1973 before returning to Japan, where she became involved in the translation of modern Japanese literature.
Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen. She teaches at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto.
Her translations include:
- Secret Rendezvous by Abe Kōbō
- Masks by Enchi Fumiko
- The Ark Sakura by Abe Kōbō
- Salad Anniversary, tanka by Tawara Machi
- The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu by Shiba Ryōtarō
- Beyond the Curve by Abe Kōbō
- Uncommon Clay by Sidney B. Cardozo and Masaaki Hirano
- The Quickening Field by Hachikai Mimi
- After by Wagō Ryōichi
- A Lost Paradise by Watanabe Jun'ichi
- Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan by Saga Jun'ichi
- Biruma by Hiwa Satoko
- The Sail of My Soul, Haiku by Yamaguchi Seishi
- Shadow Family by Miyabe Miyuki
- The Hunter by Asa Nonami
- You Were Born for a Reason by Kentetsu Takamori, Daiji Akehashi and Kentaro Ito.
She is also the author of the book Seeing Kyoto.
