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Takashi Hiraide

{{Short description|Japanese poet and critic (born 1950)}}

{{Nihongo|Takashi Hiraide|平出 隆|Hiraide Takashi|born 21 November 1960 in moji, now a part of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka}} is a Japanese poet, critic, book designer, and professor.{{Cite web |last=日本人名大辞典+Plus |first=デジタル版 |title=平出隆(ひらいで たかし)とは |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B9%B3%E5%87%BA%E9%9A%86-1103855 |access-date=2019-05-11 |website=コトバンク |language=ja}} Hiraide's most celebrated work, published in English, is The Guest Cat (2014). The Guest Cat made the New York Times best-seller list in the same year it was published in English, 2014{{Cite news |last=Cowles |first=Gregory |date=March 14, 2014 |title=Inside the List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/books/review/inside-the-list.html |work=The New York Times}} and has reached international acclaim.

Career

= Education =

Takashi Hiraide graduated from Hitotsubashi University in the 1970s and shortly after published his first collection of Poems, "The Inn" (1976){{Cite web |last=vww |date=2014-12-04 |title=Takashi HIRAIDE |url=https://takashihiraide.com/takashi-hiraide/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=takashi HIRAIDE |language=ja}} while working as an editor at Kawadeshobishinsha, a publishing house in Tokyo.{{Cite book |last=Hiraide |first=Takashi |title=Postcards to Donald Evans |publisher=Tibor De Nagy Editions |year=2003 |isbn=9781891123498 |location=New York City, NY |language=English |translator-last=Iino |translator-first=Tomoyuki}} In 1985, Hiraide spent three months at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, as poet in residence. During that time, he began writing postcards, addressed to the artist, Donald Evans. In 1990, Hiraide began teaching at Tama Art University, as a professor in poetics.{{Cite web |last=vww |date=2014-12-04 |title=Takashi HIRAIDE |url=https://takashihiraide.com/takashi-hiraide/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=takashi HIRAIDE |language=ja}} From 1998 to 1999 Hiraide was a visiting scholar at the Berlin Free University, his time there became the basis of a book later published in 2002.

= Exhibits =

Hiraide's poetry and book design has led him to be a guest at several literary events, some of which were international:

  1. "Shedding Light on Art in Japan, 1953" was on display at the Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo between June 8–July 21, 1996."The Kuniharu Akiyama Library" Koichi Ebizuka. Art Archival Journal - KISEKI: English Edition. November 2022. Accessed 21 February 2024. [https://aac.tamabi.ac.jp/resources/image/kiseki_eng01.pdf]
  2. "Airpost Poetry - Book Design for One by One" featured at the 2016 International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre,{{Cite web |title=TAKASHI HIRAIDE-AIRPOST POETRY - |url=https://tr.jpf.go.jp/events/exhibitions/takashi-hiraide-airpost-poetry/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=The Japan Foundation, Toronto |language=en-CA}} sponsored by Japan Foundation in Toronto, Canada.
  3. In August 2017, Hiraide was a resident at the Guest Studio of Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium,{{Cite web |last=Ansten |first=Nina |title=Takashi Hiraide |url=https://www.vestfossen.com/en/guest-studio/previous-guest-artists/item/485-artist-name-d |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=www.vestfossen.com |language=en-gb}} an art studio in Vestfossen, Norway.
  4. An exhibition at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art from October 2018 to January 2019, entitled: "Language and Art - Takashi Hiraide & the Artists".{{Cite web |title=Language and Art: Takashi Hiraide and the Artists |url=https://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/en/art/exhibition-past/2018/language_and_art/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=DIC川村記念美術館 |date=3 December 2018 |language=en}}
  5. Hiraide was also a speaker during the 8th "Land and Power" Symposium "BEING ALIVE: What does it mean to live? From the perspective of artistic anthropology"{{Cite web |date=2020-10-19 |title=第8回「土地と力」シンポジウム「BEING ALIVE：生きるとは何か —— 芸術人類学の視点から」 |url=https://www2.tamabi.ac.jp/iaa/2020_iaa_symposium/ |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=多摩美術大学アートとデザインの人類学研究所 |language=ja}} at the Institute for Anthropology Art and Design, Tama Art University, held 19 October 2020.

Critical reception

Japanese author, Kenzaburo Oe, has praised Hiraide's works as "an experiment that gives birth to a new kind of prose from within poetry". His works available in English translation include, Postcards to Donald Evans (2003), For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (2008) and The Guest Cat (2014). Both, For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (2008) and The Guest Cat (2014), were published by New Directions. Postcards to Donald Evans (2003) was an initial publication of the Tibor de Nagy Foundation. The book was the subject matter for a 2005 article published in the Literature & Aesthetics,{{Cite journal |last=Claremont |first=Yasuko |date=2005 |title=Takashi Hiraide's Postcards to Donald Evans |url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LA/article/view/5073 |journal=Literature & Aesthetics |language=en |volume=15 |issue=1 |issn=2200-0437}} a Sydney Open Journal, and a publication of the University of Sydney. Postcards to Donald Evans is also featured as a part of a perpetual online exhibit on tumblr, ⌥ + ␣ + esc [sic].{{Cite web |last=alt-spc-esc-eh |title=POSTCARDS TO DONALD EVANS |url=https://alt-spc-esc-eh.tumblr.com/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=alt-spc-esc-eh.tumblr.com}}

Literary honors

  • 1982: The original Japanese publication of For the Fighting of the Walnut was awarded the Minister of Education Prize for the New Writer.{{Cite web |title=Takashi Hiraide's "For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut" |url=https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/takashi-hiraides-for-the-fighting-spirit-of-the-walnut/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Words Without Borders |language=en}}
  • 1993: The original Japanese publication of Notes for My Left-hand Diary, won the Yomiuri Literary Award.{{Cite web |last=vww |date=2014-12-04 |title=Takashi HIRAIDE |url=https://takashihiraide.com/takashi-hiraide/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=takashi HIRAIDE |language=ja}}
  • 2001: The original Japanese publication of The Guest Cat won the Kiyama Shohei Literary Award (Japanese: 木山捷平文学賞, Kiyama Shōhei Bungakushō , also known as the Kiyama Prize).{{Cite web |last=Hiraide |first=Takashi |others=Translated from Japanese by Eric Selland |title=The Guest Cat |url=https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-guest-cat/#:~:text=A%20New%20York%20Times%20bestseller,deeply%20felt%2C%20ways%20of%20living. |website=New Directions, ndbooks.com}}{{Cite web |last=Vidal |first=Juan |date=January 21, 2014 |title=Here, Kitty, Kitty: Even Dog Lovers Should Read 'The Guest Cat' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/01/21/261073342/here-kitty-kitty-even-dog-lovers-should-read-the-guest-cat |website=NPR.org}}
  • 2002: The Berlin Moment [sic], awarded The Travel Writing Award.
  • 2009: For the Fighting of the Walnut won Best Translated Book Award for Poetry.{{Cite web |title=Japanese Issue of Words Without Borders « Three Percent |url=https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2009/05/07/japanese-issue-of-words-without-borders/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |language=en}}
  • 2014: New York Times Bestseller List named translated work, The Guest Cat.

References

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External links

  • [http://takashihiraide.com/takashi-hiraide/ Official Homepage of Takashi Hiraide] (English)
  • https://tr.jpf.go.jp/events/exhibitions/takashi-hiraide-airpost-poetry/
  • https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2014/05/28/takashi-hiraide/
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/takashi-hiraide
  • https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LA/article/view/5073
  • https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000309970/BIC?u=mosc00780&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3125a690

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Category:1950 births

Category:Living people

Category:Japanese literary critics

Category:International Writing Program alumni

Category:20th-century Japanese poets

Category:Tama Art University alumni