YUKI Masami Raker（結城正美）, Kanazawa University, Japan
SHIN Dooho（申斗浩）, Kangwon University, Korea
Bruce ALLEN（ブルース・アレン）, Juntendo University, Japan

The following joint plenary speech was fashioned in a way that represents the growing ecocritical community in East Asia and delivered at the International Conference on Literature and Environment, which was held at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, on November 8th, 2008.

The following is an electronic English version of the reader complied by ASLE-Korea and ASLE-Japan for the ASLE Japan-Korea Joint Symposium, which was held from August 19th to the 21st in Kanazawa. The reader was distributed to the symposium participants in advance so that they could prepare themselves for discussions at the symposium. In our desire to have participants engaged as fully as possible, each paper was made available in English, Korean, and Japanese. The following is the English version; papers in Japanese are also available on this website.

Session 1: Poetics of Nature in Korean and Japanese Literature

Kono Chie, “The Sublime Solitude in Nature: The Tanka Poems of Tsuiji Masako”
Huh Hyejung, Korea Cyber University (Korea), “The Arabian Nights, the Silk Road, and the Erotic Motif in ‘Cheoyongga’”
Hong Yong hee, Kyunghee Cyber University (Korea), “On Ecological Imagination of Kim Ji Ha’s Poetry”
Morita Keitaro, “Ito Hiromi, Seungho Choi, and Ma Kwang-Soo"

Reading Workshop

Discussion Leaders： Lee Gangsun, Kang Yeonhuen, Lee Young Hyun (ASLE-Korea)，Morita Keitaro，Nakamura Yuko，Yamamoto Yohei（ASLE-Japan）

Session 2: Senses of Place

Odani Kazuaki, “Calling the Wind: Reading ‘Wind’ in Lee JungJa, Korean Poet of Japan”
Kang Yong-ki, Chonnam National University (Korea), “Eco-consciousness in Poongsoo”
Kim Ilgu, Hannam University (Korea), “A Comparative Ecological Study of The Water Babies, Sim Cheong, and Princess Bari”

A List of Japanese Environmental Literature in English (PDF)

A LIST OF JAPANESE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

The following is a working bibliography of Japanese environmental literature in English translations. Special thanks to ASAI Chiaki, MATSUNAGA Kyoko, and SHIOTA Hiroshi for their help in this effort. (Masami R. Yuki)

Basho, Matsuo. Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Trans. Yuasa Nobuyuki. Penguin Classics, 1967.
---. Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings (Shambhala Classics). Trans. Sam Hamill. Shambhala Pubns, 2000.

Hayashi, Kyoko. “Yellow Sand.” Trans. Kyoko Iriye Selden. Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction. Trans. and ed. By Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden. New York: An East Gate Book, 1991. 207-16.

Hino, Keizo. “The Rectory” (Bokushikan). Trans. Charles M. DeWolf.

Ibuse, Masuji. “Carp.” Trans. John Bester. Lieutenant Lookeast, and Other Stories. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1971; London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. 91-95.
---. Salamander and Other Stories. Trans. John Bester. Kodansha Amer Inc; Reissue ed, 1994.

Ikezawa, Natsuki. A Burden of Flowers. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 2002.

Ishimure, Michiko. Story of the Sea of Camellias. Trans. Livia Monnet. Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1983.
---. Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease. Trans. and Intro. Livia Monnet. 1990. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The Universty of Michigan, 2003.
---. “Lake of Heaven.” Trans. Reiko Akamine and Bruce Allen. Organization and Environment 11.4 (1998).
---. Lake of Heaven. Trans. Bruce Allen. ms.

Kunikida, Doppo. “Musashino.” Trans. Kyohei Yamamoto. Living English, 1932.

Miki, Taku. “The Howling man; Escape from the City; Adolescent Thought; Managed Days; Genealogy; Calculation” Trans. Whang Insu. The poetry of postwar Japan. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1975. 214-221.

Miyazawa, Kenji.
---. Kenji Miyazawa Poems. Trans. Pulvers, Roger. Tokyo: Chikuma. 1997.
---. Night On The Milky Way Train. Trans. Pulvers, Roger. Tokyo: Chikuma. 1996
---. Night on the Milky Way Railway. Trans. Strong, Sarah. N.Y.: M.E.Sharp, Inc. 1991.
---. Night Train to the Stars and Other Stories. Trans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International. 1987.
---. Masterworks of Miyazawa Kenji : Poems and Fairy Tales. Trans. Sarah M. Strong and Karen Colligan-Taylor. Tokyo: Sunmark, 2002.
---. Milky Way Railroad. Trans. Sigrist Joseph. and D. M. Stroud, Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1996.
---. Once and Forever, the tales of Kenji Miyazawa. Trans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1993.
---. Matasaburo the Wind Imp. Ttrans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International.1992.

Morisaki, Kazue. “Two languages, Two Souls.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 153-65.
---. “Signing Voices from the Bottom of the World: One of My Favorite Poems.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 165-66.
---. “Tough Girls.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 167-74.
---. “Atoyama: Women and Labor in Japan.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 175-78.
---. “The Beginning of Life, The End of Death.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 178-89.
---. “New Life.” Trans. Masami Raker Yuki. ISLE 13.1 (2006): 183-87.

Oiwa, Keibo. Narrated by Ogata Masato. Rowing the Eternal Sea: The Story of a Minatama Fisherman. Trans. Karen Colligan-Taylor. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Yanagida, Kunio. “Folklores and tradition of Tono district” Trans. Shizuo Toda. Tohoku Gakuin Digaku Ronshu, Eigo Eibungaku, July 1962. 117-136.
---. The legends of Tono. Trans. Ronald A. Morse. Tokyo: Japan Foundation, 1975.
---. Studies in mountain village life. U of Kentucky P, 1954.

Literature and Environment Contents No. 1-9 (PDF)

No. 9 (2006)

Articles

Wicks, Izumi. “The Analogy between Woods and Novels: John Fowles’s View of Nature and Novels”

Yamamoto, Yohei. “Natue Writers’ Language Bred from ‘Necessity’: Thoreau, Dillard, and the Encounter with Animals”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “Remembering the Sound of Water: Soundscape in Taguchi Randy’s An Island of Raindrops and Dawn”

Matsuya, Rie. “Michiko Ishimure’s Landscape of Soul and Memory”

Kamioka, Katsumi. “Edward Abbey and the American National Parks”

Tada, Mitsuru. “Ecological Effects of Chemicals on Nature in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Sawako Ariyoshi’s Fukugo-Osen (Multiple Pollution) from the Point of View of Ecotoxicology”

Hirakata, Yuka. “Reasons for the Transition of the Chinese Characters for ‘Momiji’: From Yellow Leaves to Red Leaves”