Alexander Dolin
Alexander Dolin (b.1949) — prominent Russian Japanologist, prolific researcher and translator of classic and modern Japanese poetry. Alexander Dolin graduated from the Oriental Languages College of Moscow State University in 1971 and started his academic career at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Oriental Studies). There he received a PhD degree in Japanese Literature.[1] In 1992 Alexander Dolin moved to Japan where he worked as a Professor of Comparative Literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for twelve years. In 2004-2017 worked as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture in Akita International University as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture.[1] In 2017 moved back to Russia and was welcomed there as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
Alexander Dolin is an author and a translator of more than 70 monographs on Japanese and Russian literature, culture and religion[2]. He has published a great variety of anthologies and individual collections, introducing Japanese poetry and linking it to the development of society.[3] Alexander Dolin also published the first and only collection of Edo period tanka poetry in Russian ("The Autumn Cicadas").[4] In 2022, Alexander Dolin published the "Great Library of Japanese Poetry in 8 volumes" (in Russian)[5] — the result of his studies through the years which contains explanations and translations of Japanese poetry from the ancient times to the present day.[6] His works were issued in Russian, German, English and Japanese.[7]
In 1995, he was awarded the Special Contribution to Culture Prize by the All-Japan Translators' Association for his academic and poetic translation into Russian of the Kokinwakashu immortal anthology (X c.).[8] Union of Russian Writers awarded Alexander Dolin with a Medal of Honor For the Development of International Cultural Collaboration.
Alexander Dolin is also acknowledged as the author of several comprehensive books on Oriental Martial Arts. His works laid the foundation for the modern rise of interest in kenpo.[9] He is also recognized as a philosophical poet and a writer with an original style.[9]
Selected Works
Original Works
- Kempo – Die Kunst des Kampfes (Ostasiatische Kampfsportarten: Geschichte und Philosophie). Berlin, Sport Verlag, 1989. [in German]
- Slaves of the Promised Land [約束の地の奴隷]. Tokyo, Chuokoron publishers, 1991. [in Japanese]
- History of New Japanese Poetry. Tanka, Haiku, Kindaishi. In 4 Vol. St. Petersburg, Hyperion, 2007. [in Russian with English and Japanese summaries]
- The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry – Romanticism and Symbolism. Akita International University Press, 2010. [in English]
- Japanese Culture in the West / edited by A. Dolin. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, 2025. [in Russian]
Major Translations
- Kokinwakashu (complete poetic translation with parallel texts, verbal translation, academic commentary and introduction). In 3 Vol. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1995.
- Masaoka Shiki. Selected Poetry and Literary Criticism (with academic commentary). St. Petersburg, Hyperion Publishers, 2000.
- Masterpieces of Classic Japanese Poetry (8-19 cc.). Moscow, Exmo Publishers, 2010.
- Ishii Rogetsu. A Moon in a Dewdrop: Selected Haiku. Akita International University Press, 2013.
- Great Library of Japanese Poetry. In 8 Vol. (classic and modern Japanese poetry V-XX cc.). Moscow, Nauka, 2022.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dolin, A. (2010). The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry: Romanticism and Symbolism / Editor of the English edition Professor William Lee. Akita International University Press. ISBN 978-4990432911.
- ↑ Korovina, Yulia (2020-12-31). "2020 Activity Report. December Activity Report". Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ↑ Baxter, James C. (2009). Interpretations of Japanese culture : views from Russia and Japan. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. p. 408. Search this book on
- ↑ Kabanov, A. (1987). "Recent Soviet Studies in Pre-Modern Japanese Literature". Monumenta Nipponica. Sophia University. 42 (3): 289–298. doi:10.2307/2384928. JSTOR 2384928. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
- ↑ "A great library of Japanese poetry in translation by Alexander Dolin published with support from ICF". International Chodiev Foundation. 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
- ↑ Dutkina, G.B. (2023). "Bol'shaya biblioteka yaponskoy poezii v perevodakh Aleksandra Dolina [The Great Library of Japanese Poetry Translated by Alexander Dolin] (in Russian)". Vostochnaya Aziya: fakty i analitika [East Asia: Facts and Analytics]. 1: 117–124. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
- ↑ Akita International University Global Review. Volume VII (2015). Akita International University Press. ISSN 1883-8243
- ↑ "『詩の国秋田』にちなんで（４）Contribution of Professor Alexander Dolin". Akita International Haiku Network. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Долин Александр Аркадьевич". Институт Востоковедения РАН. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
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