Dorothy Britton
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Dorothy Guyver Britton (Lady Bouchier) was born in Yokohama and educated in the United States and England, returning to Japan after the American Occupation. She is best-known as a translator into English of Oku-no-Hosomichi by Basho: A Haiku Journey - Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province. She is author of The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness and co-author of National Parks of Japan.
Dorothy Britton is also a poet and composer and was a pupil of Darius Milhaud. She is known for her popular album Japanese Sketches, in which Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's father is violin soloist.
Her late husband was a hero in the Battle of Britain, Air Vice Marshal Sir Cecil ("Boy") Bouchier, K.B.E., C.B., D.F.C.
[edit] Selected Translations
Tomiko Higa, The Girl with the White Flag
Tsuneo Hayashida, The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, The Spider's Thread and Other Stories
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window
Princess Chichibu, The Silver Drum, A Japanese Imperial Memoir
Takashi Kojima, Rashomon and Other Stories
Chihiro Iwasaki, Chichiro's Album of Words and Pictures
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