Richard Okada

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Hideki Richard Okada (2 July 1945 – 4 April 2012

Tale of Genji
, and his most recent work was editing a three-volume collection of academic essays about the novel. His doctoral degree was from the University of California, Berkeley.

His 1977 doctoral thesis, Sagoromo monogatari: a study and partial translation,[2] has been called "one of the most important contributions to the study of classical Japanese narrative to have emerged in the last twenty years " by Richard Bowring of the University of Cambridge.[3]

He died of natural causes on 4 April 2012 in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.[4]

On 20 May 2017, an independent report commissioned by St. Paul's School named Okada as one of thirteen adults at the school against whom substantiated instances of sexual misconduct had been documented.[5]

Publications

Books

  • Okada, H. Richard. Figures of resistance: language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.
    ISBN 0-8223-1185-2 In over 200 North American academic libraries, according to WorldCat[6]
  • Okada, H. Richard, ed. The Tale of Genji. London: Routledge, 2009.3 vols.

Other publications

References

  1. ^ "Okada, H. Richard". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  2. OCLC 29531876
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  3. ^ The Ise monogatari: A Short Cultural History Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 401-480
  4. ^ Saxon, Jamie. "Richard Okada, Princeton scholar of East Asian studies and mentor, dies". News at Princeton. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Read the full report on sexual misconduct at St. Paul's School - the Boston Globe".
  6. OCLC 23384982
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