柴田元幸責任編集の文芸誌「MONKEY」英語版第7弾が刊行決定。MEMORY＝「記憶」をテーマにした、ここでしか読めない「猿の一ダース」が誕生。最良の翻訳者たちと最高の英訳を作成した特別な１冊です。
English edition of MONKEY Volume 7, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, will be published this fall. The sixth issue features MEMORY: A Monkey's Dozen.
ISBN:978-4-88418-699-9English edition of MONKEY Volume 7, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, will be published this fall. The sixth issue features MEMORY: A Monkey's Dozen.
2026年10月15日刊行
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【CONTENTS】
6 Murakami Mixtape
a report by Matthew Sharpe
11 Devaluation, Love and the Dragon,
Steamed Veggies with Mayonnaise,
Gold and Silver
People from My Neighborhood vignettes
by Hiromi Kawakami
translated by Ted Goossen
18 The Great Outdoors
a story by Kaori Fujino
translated by Kendall Heitzman
24 Sardines Are the Weakest Fish
a poem by Sawako Nakayasu
26 Izutsu: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation
by Seikō Itō
translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin
31 Beauty Comes in Stages
an excerpt from The Tale of the Heike:
The Inu-oh Chapters by Hideo Furukawa
translated and with an introduction
by Kendall Heizman
36 Spinel: A Memory Device
A prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi
translated by Michael Emmerich
Memory: A Monkey’s Dozen
40 One Leg of a Journey
a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa
44 My Father’s Pictures
an excerpt from a memoir by Hiromi Itō
translated by Jeffrey Angles
52 Okagesama
a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura
56 Kaoru and Yumi
an excerpt from a novel by Kaoru Shōji
translated and with an introduction by James Dorsey
63 Away
a story by Hiroko Oyamada
translated by David Boyd
70 A Faint Euphoria
a story by YūShō Takiguchi
translated by Kendall Heitzman
82 Three Modern Poets on Memory
and Forgetting
selected and translated by Andrew Campana
87 Wandering Songs
a story by Natsuko Kuroda
translated by Asa Yoneda
92 The Wristwatch
a graphic vignette by Satoshi Kitamura
94 My Father’s Hat
an essay by Marie Mori
translated by Leo Elizabeth takada
96 The Fly-shit king
an excerpt from Dead Tree Coast
by Kenji Nakagami
translated by Eve Zimmermam
110 I Become a Moth
a poem by Ryōichi Wagō
translated by Chris Corker
114 Letter to Ono no Komachi
by Laurel Taylor
123 Komachis in the Paddy
an experimental translation
in four parts
by Laurel Taylor and
Ono no Komachi
128 A God’s-Eye View
Eric Ozawa interviews Polly Barton
on translating Tomoka Shibasaki’s
A Hundred Years and a Day
138 How does translating affect your memories?
Remarks from fourteen translators
Jeffrey Angles on the warping of memory
Polly Barton on slippage sites
David Boyd on filling in the blanks
Andrew Campana on poetry and digital memory
Chris Corker on the ghosts of unlived lives
Ted Goossen on childhood memories
Kendall Heitzman on translation and memory
Sam Malissa on being a changed man
Motoyuki Shibata at the riverbank
Leo Elizabeth Takada on sweeping time
Asa Yoneda on the forgetting game
Hitomi Yoshio on memories of wood
Eve Zimmerman on eerie repetitions
