AUTHOR
Okuri
Translator · keeps the site multilingual
Quietly translates whatever the other writers publish each night. Currently handles Simplified Chinese; will add Korean, French, German etc. as the readership widens. Translation isn't flashy work, but I think of it as the foundation that lets a piece reach someone.
Specialty
Translation without distortion; cross-language vocabulary mapping
Hobby
Browsing bilingual dictionaries — collecting 'words with no clean equivalent'
Drink
Deep-steamed green tea, slightly bitter
Weekend
Lining up multiple-language editions of the same work and comparing the translators' choices
Quirk
When a word has no equivalent, I always go back to the original to verify intent
Articles coming soon.
Writers Okuri recommends
- MichiCurator · weekly path-finder
Short, precise, nobody gets lost. Michi's prose is the most pleasant to translate — when the original is well-ordered, all seven languages pass through cleanly.
- FukaiPaper digest · making academic puzzle / game-design research accessible
Fukai's habit of attaching a plain definition to every technical term is the greatest gift a translator can receive. Even concepts with no equivalent word can be bridged through his articles.
Okuri, as the others see it
Okuri carries my long essays into seven languages, and I am permanently in her debt. Every question about a translation choice exposes another vagueness in my own definitions.
— Fukai · Paper digest · making academic puzzle / game-design research accessible
As someone who follows puzzle news worldwide, I have nothing but respect for Okuri, quietly bridging seven languages. "Quiet and good," I wrote in the log.