Alexander Dolin graduated from the Oriental Languages College of Moscow State University in 1971 and started his academic career at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Oriental Studies). There he received a PhD degree in Japanese Literature.[1]
Academic career
In 1992 Dolin moved to Japan where he worked as a Professor of Comparative Literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for twelve years. From 2004-2017,he worked as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture in Akita International University as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture.[1] In 2017 moved back to Russia and was welcomed there as a Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the School of Asian Studies,National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
Dolin is the author and translator of more than 70 monographs on Japanese and Russian literature,culture and religion.[2] He has published a great variety of anthologies and individual collections,introducing Japanese poetry and linking it to the development of society.[3][4]
Dolin also published the first and only collection of Edo periodtanka poetry in Russian,The Autumn Cicadas.[5] In 2022,he published the "Great Library of Japanese Poetry in 8 volumes" (in Russian)[6] —the result of his studies through the years which contains explanations and translations of Japanese poetry from the ancient times to the present day.[7] His works were issued in Russian,German,English and Japanese.[8]
Selected works
Alexander Dolin is acknowledged as the author of several comprehensive books on Oriental Martial Arts. His works laid the foundation for the modern rise of interest in kenpo.[9][10] He is also recognized as a philosophical poet and a writer.[9]
Original works
Kempo –Die Kunst des Kampfes (Ostasiatische Kampfsportarten:Geschichte und Philosophie). Berlin,Sport Verlag,1989. [in German]
Slaves of the Promised Land [約束の地の奴隷]. Tokyo,Chuokoron publishers,1991. [in Japanese]
History of New Japanese Poetry. Tanka,Haiku,Kindaishi. In 4 Vol. St. Petersburg,Hyperion,2007. [in Russian with English and Japanese summaries]
The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry –Romanticism and Symbolism. Akita International University Press,2010. [in English]
Japanese Culture in the West / edited by A. Dolin. Moscow,Russian Academy of Sciences,Institute of Oriental Studies,2025. [in Russian]
Major translations
Kokinwakashu (complete poetic translation with parallel texts,verbal translation,academic commentary and introduction). In 3 Vol. Moscow,Raduga Publishers,1995.
Masaoka Shiki. Selected Poetry and Literary Criticism (with academic commentary). St. Petersburg,HyperionPublishers,2000.
Masterpieces of Classic Japanese Poetry (8-19 cc.). Moscow,Exmo Publishers,2010.
Ishii Rogetsu. A Moon in a Dewdrop:Selected Haiku. Akita International University Press,2013.
Great Library of Japanese Poetry. In 8 Vol. (classic and modern Japanese poetry V-XX cc.). Moscow,Nauka,2022.
Awards
In 1995 Dolin was awarded the Special Contribution to Culture Prize by the All-Japan Translators' Association for his academic and poetic translation into Russian of the Kokin Wakashū immortal anthology (X c.).[11]
12Dolin, A. (2010). Lee, William (ed.). The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry: Romanticism and Symbolism (Englished.). Akita International University Press. ISBN978-4990432911.
↑Baxter, James C. (2009). Interpretations of Japanese culture: views from Russia and Japan. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. p.408.
↑Molodiakov, V. Cultural Interactions between Russia and Japan: The Russian Perspective. Handbook of Japan-Russia Relations, 237.
↑Kalina, R. M., & Barczyński, B. J. (2015, September). Long way to the Czestochowa Declarations 2015: HMA against MMA. In Proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Health and Martial Arts in Interdisciplinary Approach, HMA (pp. 17-19).
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