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Dorothy Britton

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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}Dorothy Guyver Britton, Lady Bouchier MBE (14 February 1922 – 25 February 2015) was born in Yokohama, moved to the United States at the age of 13, and was educated in the United States and England, returning to Japan after the American Occupation. She was best known as a translator into English of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Madogiwa no Totto-chan as Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window, and Oku no Hosomichi by Basho: A Haiku Journey – Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province. She was the author of The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness and co-author of National Parks of Japan.^[1]

Dorothy Britton was also a poet and composer, and was a pupil of Darius Milhaud. She was known for her popular album Japanese Sketches, in which Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's father is violin soloist.

Her husband, Air Vice Marshal Sir Cecil ("Boy") Bouchier, K.B.E., C.B., D.F.C. was the first commander of the Indian Air Force and a station commander during the Battle of Britain.

Lady Bouchier was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.^[2]

Selected translations

Tomiko Higa – The Girl with the White Flag^[3]
Tsuneo Hayashida – The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – The Spider's Thread and Other Stories
Matsuo Bashō - A Haiku Journey: Bashō's Narrow Road to a Far Province
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi – Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window
Princess Chichibu – The Silver Drum, A Japanese Imperial Memoir
Takashi Kojima – Rashomon and Other Stories
Chihiro Iwasaki – Chichiro's Album of Words and Pictures

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Book Launch and Talk by Dorothy Britton |url=https://www.japansociety.org.uk/event/dorothy-britton-launch/ |publisher=The Japan Society |accessdate=31 December 2018}}
2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=59446 |date=12 June 2010 |page=24 |supp=y }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://bookdragon.si.edu/2003/06/27/the-girl-with-the-white-flag-by-tomiko-higa/|title=The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa, translated by Dorothy Britton|date=27 June 2003|accessdate=19 March 2010}}

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