Sumie Jones

"The Tales of Zeraku,” a translation of selections from Zeraku Monogatari by an anonymous author (1655-1658), in Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern, eds. with Kenji Watanabe, A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750. University of Hawai’i Press, 2020.

 

"The True View of Kasane Precipice," a translation of selections from Sanyūtei Enchō’s Shinkei Kasanegafuchi,composed1859, published 1887-88, in Sumie Jones and Charles Shirō Inouye, eds., A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. University of Hawai’i Press, 2017. pp. 403-419.　

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"The Bad Girl Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid," a translation of selections from Shunkintei Ryûō’s Adamusume Konomi no Hachijō, 1873, in Sumie Jones and Charles Shirō Inouye, eds., A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. University of Hawai’i Press, 2017.

 

 “Takahashi Oden the Devil Woman," a translation of selections from Kanagaki Robun’s Takahashi Oden Yasha Monogatari, 1879, in Sumie Jones and Charles Shirō Inouye, eds., A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. University of Hawai’i Press, 2017.

 

The Shirokoya Scandal: Two Ways of Looking at the Case Judged by Magistrate Ōoka Tadasuke, consisting of translations of Baba Bunkō’s “The Scandal of Okuma of Shirokoya on Shinzaimoku-chō; Kagaya Chōbei’s Good Deeds” (Shinzaimoku-chō Shirokoya Okuma Adana no Ben; Kagaya Chōbei Jitsugi no Ben) and “The Decline and Fall of the House of Shirokoya” (Shirokoya Ichizoku Bōshitsu no Ben), both 1757; and, a translation of Episodes 10 and 11 from Shunkintei Ryūō’s The Coquette Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid(Adamusume Konomi no Hachijō), 1873, Hollywood, CA: Highmoonoon, 2010. 

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“Playboy Grilled Edo Style,” a translation of Santō Kyōden’s illustrated fiction, Edoumare Uwaki no Kabayaki(1785), in Sumie Jones ed. with Kenji Watanabe, An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega City, 1750-1850. University of Hawai'i Press, 2013.

 

A Japanese adaptation of The Gooey-Duck Song, written and composed by Ron  Konzak and J. Elfendahl, performed for a sound record by R. Konzak and his Pierymplezak, 1972. (It was a commercial song to sell gooey-duck from Seattle's coast to Japan's sushi market--calling it "mirugai"-- but was often performed in Japanese by Konzak's group at nightclubs in Las Vegas and other cities in the U.S.「グーイダックの歌」（Ｒ．コンザック、Ｊ．エルフェンダール作詞・作曲  of The Gooey-Duck Song  の日本語版。コンザックのグループ、ピエリンプルザックの演奏でレコード作成。1973.