TY - GEN
T1 - For You
T2 - Translation of a poem by Ishikawa Itsuko
AU - Crawford, Jen
AU - Kikuchi, Rina
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Itsuko Ishikawa’s ‘For You’ reflects on the Kantō Massacre of 1923, in which more than 6,000 Korean residents of Japan were murdered. In the days following the Great Kantō Earthquake, fires proliferated, water and food supplies were cut off, and many newspapers stopped printing. Amid the chaos, rumours were circulated that Korean residents were rioting and planning terrorist attacks by arson and the poisoning of wells. Police, army and vigilante groups carried out lynchings and mass executions of those they identified as Korean. In its aftermath, the massacre was concealed by the Japanese government, with the nature of the events and the numbers of dead unclear.
AB - Itsuko Ishikawa’s ‘For You’ reflects on the Kantō Massacre of 1923, in which more than 6,000 Korean residents of Japan were murdered. In the days following the Great Kantō Earthquake, fires proliferated, water and food supplies were cut off, and many newspapers stopped printing. Amid the chaos, rumours were circulated that Korean residents were rioting and planning terrorist attacks by arson and the poisoning of wells. Police, army and vigilante groups carried out lynchings and mass executions of those they identified as Korean. In its aftermath, the massacre was concealed by the Japanese government, with the nature of the events and the numbers of dead unclear.
KW - Poetry co-translation
UR - https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/oct/wrice-symposium
M3 - Poem/s
T3 - Other People's Windows: New Writing Across the Asia-Pacific
PB - RMIT University Press
ER -