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Helen Craig McCullough (1918-1998) was an eminent scholar of
classical Japanese poetry and prose. Born in California, she graduated from
Berkeley in 1939 with a degree in political science. After the outbreak of World War II, she entered the U.S. Navy’s Japanese Language School in
Boulder, Colorado. She served as a translator in Washington and Tokyo until 1950, when she returned to Berkeley and earned an MA and PhD.
She served as a lecturer at
Stanford, later returning to Berkeley (1969) where she became professor in 1975. Her honours included several visiting professorships and a
Medal of Honor from the Japanese government. She retired in 1988.
McCullough’s scholarly publications included 11 volumes of studies and translations.
She was married to fellow Berkeley graduate student
William McCullough, who was also a noted scholar of Japanese literature.
Some of her publications included:
- Tale of Flowering Fortunes : Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period (with William McCullough) -- the Eiga Monogatari
- Brocade by Night: 'Kokin Wakashu' and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry
Her translations included:
Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval Japan
The Tale of the Heike
Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry
Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from 10th Century Japan (Ariwara no Narihira)
Okagami, the Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027 and His Times : a Study and Translation)
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