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Abraham Alexander 1330031 Asian 207 Wikipedia Project: Tanaka Chikao

Hi readers! I'm a student in a class on modern and contemporary Japanese theatre, and I'm going to be creating a Wikipedia page on Japanese playwright Tanaka Chikao. A good amount of information is available on Chikao including his influences, beliefs, and accomplishes. My sources tell me that Chikao was an existentialist who focused his work on the abstract spirituality of the human world with focus on the early postwar years of Japan. I hope to uncover much more about Tanaka Chikao by reading some of his plays and reading a bit more in depth about him through some of my sources. As I delve more deeply into the life of Tanaka Chikao, I hope to uncover more about his upbringing and hopefully discover a common theme among some of his more famous plays. Here's a list of sources I'm planning to use right now:

5 Sources:

Rimer, J. Thomas, Mitsuya Mōri, and M. Cody Poulton. "Education." The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama. N.p.: Columbia UP, 2014. 275-312. Print.

This is our class textbook and there is a small introduction of Tanaka Chikao in the introductive page written by translator J. Thomas Rimer. This is an important source because I have access to the full play written by Mr. Chikao, which I can fully analyze myself. It also has information regarding influences for writing the play and some major events that occurred in his lifetime.

Rimer, J. Thomas. "Four Plays by Tanaka Chikao." Monumenta Nipponica. 3rd ed. Vol. 31. N.p.: Sophia U, 1976. 275-98. Print.

This source provides a very in depth look into the influences of Tanaka as a writer who expressed his personal concerns in the form of dramatized art. Also, I was able to find out more about his upbringing and his life as a student and young adult.

Rimer, J. Thomas. "After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." The Journal of Asian Studies. 5th ed. Vol. 45. N.p.: Association for Asian Studies, 1986. 1077-079. JSTOR. Web. 25 Apr. 2015.

There is a short paragraph in this journal about Tanaka Chikao. However, it is very useful as it provides information about Chikao’s take on the bombing of Nagasaki and how his poetic dramas helped him reconcile the broken pieces left by WWII. Also, The paragraph gives me information regarding his play The Head of Mary and the symbolism that the head represents in the context of the bombings. The importance of this is that I can address the direction Tanaka was hoping to go by writing these plays based off Post War traumas.

Konaka, YÅtarÅ, and Winifred Olsen. "Japanese Atomic-Bomb Literature." JSTOR. University of Oklahoma, n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2015.

I have found that the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima influenced many artists. Instead of focusing all my writing on just Tanaka, I will have the information to expand my ideas to other writers so that my Wikipedia page mentions other writers that may have been influenced by Tanaka, or worked along side him. I have hopes that this gives my article a bit more credibility as I can link some of the other writers Wikipedia page to mine.

Goodmen, David G. "Head of Mary." : The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2015. This is a useful source for the play The Head of Mary rather than an informative piece on Tanaka Chikao. Because I plan on doing a part of my Wikipedia page on his popular play, this source will give me the information needed to make a more in-depth analysis.

Key Points: 1.	Influenced by Nagasaki Bombing 2.	Poetry in his Plays 3.	Tanaka as an existentialist 4.	Tanaka and spirituality 5.	The Head of Mary

The structure of my page will be laid out like many other pages on a person. I will have a simple introduction as to who Tanaka is and his accomplishments and why he is noteworthy. Then, I want to talk about his early years, education and life as a young adult. Following that I would like to discuss in more detail his beliefs and how they influenced some of his work. There will also be a section in my article that I would like to talk about his play “The Head of Mary” in detail because I find that to be extremely relevant and on of his more popular plays.