We’re very happy to report that Yoko Danno’s lyrical translation of the Kojiki made Grace Cavalieri’s best reading for poetry list. Take a look at this fine online journal at http://www.themontserratreview.com/.

Donald Richie’s great review of Yoko Danno’s Songs and Stories of the Kojiki ran in the Japan Times on the 21st of this month in his “Asian Bookshelf” column. It’s now online at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20080921dr.html. In his review Mr. Richie confirms exactly what I felt about the manuscript after I’d read the first few pages. I’d winced my way through Basil Hall Chamberlain’s 1882 translation and had also read Donald L. Phillipi’s treatment of the book. What was needed was a reader’s edition translated by a very fine poet and there it was in my hands.