Royall Tyler (academic)

Royall Tyler (born 1936) is a scholar and translator of Japanese literature.

A descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler (1757–1826), he was born in London, England, grew up in the United States and, during his high school years, France. He has a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University.^[1] Between 1990 and retirement in 2000 he taught at the Australian National University in Canberra.^[2] Earlier, he taught at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Oslo, Norway.^[1] He lives in rural New South Wales.

Royall Tyler

Honors[]

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2008^[2]
• Japan Foundation: Japan Foundation Award, 2007^[2]
• Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Award, 2001^[2]

Selected studies and translations[]

• Japanese Tales, Pantheon, 1987.
• French Folktales, Pantheon, 1989.
• Japanese Nô Dramas, Penguin, 1990.
• The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity, Columbia University Press, 1992.
• The Tale of Genji, Viking, 2001 (hardback) and Penguin, 2002 (paper).
• Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Kawaguchi Matsutarô, Tuttle, 2007.
• The Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Yasuoka Shôtarô, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
• The Ise Stories: Ise monogatari, University of Hawai'i Press, 2010 (with Joshua Mostow).
• Flowers of Grass by Fukunaga Takehiko, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.
• The Tale of the Heike, Penguin, 2012.
• A Great Valley Under the Stars, Isobar Press, 2014.
• Before Heike and After: Hogen, Heiji, Jokyuki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016.
• From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: Takemuki-ga-ki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016.
• From Baishōron to Nantaiheiki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016.
• A Reading of The Tale of Genji, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016.
• To Hallow Genji: A Tribute to Noh, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017.
• Iwashimizu Hachiman in War and Cult, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017.
• Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des Contes, Blue-Tongue Books, 2020.

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