Scholar, historian, professor, writer and linguist
Organizations
Cambridge University (1949–1954)
Columbia University (since 1955)
Known for
"History of Japanese Literature" series (1976–)
"Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912" (2002)
Awards
Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962)
Yamagata Banto Prize (1983)
Yomiuri Prize (1985)
Japanese Literature Award (1985)
Fukuoka Prize (1991)
2nd Class, Order of the Rising Sun (1993)
Asahi Prize (1998)
Mainichi Publication Culture Award (2002)
Order of Culture (2008)
Junior Third Rank (2019)
Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.[1][2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order).[3] This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.[4][a]
^Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313267888.
^"Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene dies at 96". The Japan Times. Tokyo. February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
^Fackler, Martin (November 2, 2012). "Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014.
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Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese...
when he wrote the book. The novel was first translated into English by DonaldKeene as No Longer Human, published 1958 by New Directions in Norfolk, Connecticut...
English edition appeared in September 1956 in a translation provided by DonaldKeene. The first two chapters had been printed in Harper's Bazaar the previous...
emperor's boyhood is known only through later accounts, which his biographer DonaldKeene points out are often contradictory. One contemporary described Mutsuhito...
74–76. Dazai, Osamu; Keene, Donald (2002). The setting sun. Boston: Tuttle. ISBN 4805306726. OCLC 971573193. Dazai, Osamu; Keene, Donald (1958). No longer...
widely regarded as one of his greatest domestic plays and was hailed by DonaldKeene as “Chikamatsu’s masterpiece”. The Japanese new wave filmmaker Masahiro...
considered as strong as his later play The Love Suicides at Amijima (1721), DonaldKeene praised the death passage as “one of the loveliest passages in Japanese...
since 1995 Donald Edward Jones (born 1949), American politician Donald Eugene Fields II (born 1964) FBI's most wanted fugitive DonaldKeene (1922–2019)...
but the mention of censorship itself was forbidden. This means, as DonaldKeene observes, that for some producers of texts "the Occupation censorship...
ballrooms, startled audiences accustomed to the long-settled originals. DonaldKeene translated Kindai Nogaku-shū (近代能楽集, Five Modern Noh Plays) (Tuttle,...
upon their successful return from the Moon, as well as literary scholar DonaldKeene. The Order of Culture is held at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. The Japan...
In his Seeds in the Heart, translator, critic and literary historian DonaldKeene said that "[t]he intensity of emotion expressed in [her] poetry not only...
ISBN 978-1-880656-20-4 Bashō, Matsuo. The Narrow Road to Oku. Trans. DonaldKeene. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996b. Print. ISBN 978-4-7700-2028-4...
their publications to boost support for the new government. According to DonaldKeene: Not only did Occupation censorship forbid criticism of the United States...
ISBN 978-1-933330-16-7 Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his world, 1852–1912, p 133. DonaldKeene The last Samurai: japanische Geschichtsdarstellung im populären Kinofilm...
original on April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2024. "DonaldKeene Center of Japanese Culture". DonaldKeene Center of Japanese Culture. Archived from the original...
deliberately moved to a woman protagonist and a third person narrative. DonaldKeene says of Thirst for Love that it is "a youthful work, but one of Mishima's...
speaking, in the hope that the Moon will grant their wishes. Translated by DonaldKeene. "Patriotism" – After the failure of their coup d'état, Lt. Shinji Takeyama...
1990, 187 p. (ISBN 978-0-8351-2194-1, read online archive), p. 13. DonaldKeene, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion : The Creation of the Soul of Japan...
written by Yukio Mishima. It was first published in English, translated by DonaldKeene by Grove Press and is currently out of print. Madame de Sade is a historical...
Room #2: Rare Book Reading Room From Folk Monsters to Mass Monsters". DonaldKeene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University. Display Case 8: Monster...
The Times. No. 36802. London. 24 June 1902. p. 8. "Professor DonaldKeene". The DonaldKeene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Columbia...
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