Haruko Ichikawa


Haruko Ichikawa was a Japanese writer.

Life

She was the wife of and the grand-daughter of Viscount Shibusawa. She died on 5 December 1943.

Works

A new edition of some of her writings was edited by Hiromi Takatō and published by Soryusha in 2022.

Japanese Lady in Europe

Japanese Lady in Europe is a book written by Haruko Ichikawa, translated by Shigeo Inouyé, and edited by William Plomer, which was published by Jonathan Cape in London, and E. P. Dutton in New York, in 1937. It is a translation into English of the book Obei No Sumizumi , published by Kenkyūsha in 1933.
The book was reviewed by The Guardian, Time, The New York Times, The London Mercury, the Wilson Bulletin for Librarians, The New Statesman, The Tanager, Travel the Saturday Review of Literature, The Commonweal, World Review, Now & Then, The Living Age, Time and Tide, Great Britain and the East The Listener, The Spectator, Asia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the Argus.
In 1938, Shigeo Inouyé was awarded the 7th Okakura Prize for his translation.

Japanese Lady in America

Japanese Lady in America is a book written by Haruko Ichikawa and first published 1938. It was published by Kenkyūsha in Tokyo. It is a translation into English of the book Beikoku No Tabi, Nihon No Tabi.
It was reviewed by the Japan Times and the Japan Christian Quarterly.
Extracts were published, by Kenkyūsha in Tokyo, under the title American Pilgrimage, edited with notes by Arundell del Re.