Donald Keene

Donald Keene
Junior Third Rank
キーン ドナルド
Keene in April 2011
Born
Donald Lawrence Keene

(1922-06-18)June 18, 1922
New York City, United States
DiedFebruary 24, 2019(2019-02-24) (aged 96)
Tokyo, Japan
Nationality
Education
Occupation(s)Scholar, historian, professor, writer and linguist
Organizations
Known for
  • "History of Japanese Literature" series (1976–)
  • "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912" (2002)
Awards

Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.[1][2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order).[3] This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.[4][a]

  1. ^ Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313267888.
  2. ^ "Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene dies at 96". The Japan Times. Tokyo. February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Fackler, Martin (November 2, 2012). "Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014.
  4. ^ "年譜 | プロフィール | ドナルド・キーンについて | ドナルド・キーン・センター柏崎". www.donaldkeenecenter.jp. Retrieved February 5, 2021.


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