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Profiles of participating artists and translators (titles omitted, in order of the Japanese syllabary)

Artists

Hiromi Kawakami (novelist)

Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo. She won the Akutagawa Prize in 1996 for Record of a Night Too Brief, the Deux Magots Literary Prize and Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize in 1999 for Kamisama, the Ito Sei Literature Prize and Woman Writer Prize for Oboreru, the Tanizaki Prize for The Briefcase in 2001, the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts for Manazuru in 2007, the Yomiuri Prize for Mizugoe in 2015 and the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature for Okina Tori ni Sarawarenaiyo in 2016. She also created a modern translation of Tales of Ise in the Collections of Japanese Literature (Ikezawa Natsuki version) in 2016. 2019: Received the Medal with Purple Ribbon.

Keishi Nagatsuka (playwright, director, actor)

Keishi Nagatsuka was born in Tokyo. In 1996, he created the theater production unit ASAGAYA SPIDERS which he has been active as playwright, director and actor. He has received many awards including the 2004 New Artist Award of Minister of Education in Fine Arts for directing and acting his own play "Hataraku Otoko" and for "The Pillowman", the 2005 Yomiuri Theater Excellent Work Award for "Last Show" which he wrote and directed, and the 2006 Yomiuri Theater Excellence Directing Award for "The Lieutenant of Inishmore". He stayed in London in 2008 for a year under the Overseas Study Program for Upcoming Artists supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 2011, he started the solo project KUZUKAWA SHICHOSHA and has performed "Bui", "Okashita mono" and "Haishin" (Betrayal). His recent works include "Osho" (playwright, director, actor), "Player" (director) and "Kagamino kanatawa tanakano nakani" (playwright, director, actor), "Death of a Salesman" (director), "Ihatovo no Gekiressha" (director at KOMATSU-Za) and more are from his newly launched unit SHIN ROYAL TAISHUSHA.

Rina Matsudaira (Japanese-style painter)

Rina Matsudaira was born in Hyogo prefecture. Completed her Masters in NIHONGA (Japanese-style painting) at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2014. She mainly creates figure paintings focusing on the notion of distance between oneself and others. In 2017, her solo exhibition "Insider-out" was held at Dai-Ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo. She also exhibited "The 7th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award" at the Ueno Royal Museum in 2018 and "Keichoen Exhibition" in Kyoto from 2012 to 2017, etc. She received the Best Young Artist Award by the City of Kyoto in 2017 and was awarded at VOCA Exhibition in 2015.

Yaxuan Liang (contemporary artist)

Yaxuan Lian was born in China. She completed her master degree in graduate school, department of intermedia art, at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017, and is currently an assistant professor at Tokyo Media Art, Takarazuka University. In addition to her artistic careers, she is ardently engaged in preservation and research of Asian traditional folk art as the founder of the art project "Recreation of Asian Traditional Arts Project" (RATAP).

Koji Yamamura (animation artist)

Koji Yamamura was born in Nagoya City. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. He is the representative director of Yamamura Animation, a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and a membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). One of his most popular works “Mt. HEAD” was nominated for an Academy Award in the short animation category. This film along with “Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor” have won the grand prize at all 5 of the world’s biggest animation festivals. His films have been shown at other film festivals and he has won many awards in and outside of Japan. The animations “Pacusi”, “Bavel’s Book”, “The Hyuga episode of Kojiki”, “The Old Crocodile” and “Muybridge's Strings” are known as representative works. For his distinguished achievements as an animator, re received Kawakita Prize, Education Award for Fine Arts in Japan and etc. In addition to his activities as an animator, he also published children's picture books such as “Viva Vegetables” and “Parade”. 2019: Received the Medal with Purple Ribbon.

Translator

Peter MacMillan (translator)

Peter MacMillan was born in Ireland. After graduating the National University of Ireland, he went to the USA for his doctorate. He has experience such as being a professor at Kyorin University and has lived in Japan for 30 years. In 2008, he received the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Best Translation Award and the Japan Society of Translator’s Special Award for Japanese Translation Culture for One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. He published the English translation of Tales of Ise in 2016. In 2017, One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each was published from Bunshun Bunko.

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