Lindsey DeWitt Prat, PhD

Translation

Featured industry translation projects

Looking up at the latticed stone facade of a Tokyo tower complex, a sunlit high-rise and a crescent moon behind.

Mori Building

English adaptation of a Japanese real estate developer’s corporate website.
2025

Bamboo grove with sunlight filtering through the leaves.

Wakuden

Ongoing English adaptation of a Japanese culinary and hospitality brand.
2019–present

Tokyo street at dusk, Tokyo Tower lit orange in the distance.

Spoon.

English adaptation of a Japanese film production company website.
2024

Two carved bodhisattva heads on wooden bases, one in pale fresh-cut wood and one aged and darkened.

Haku Marunouchi

Ongoing English adaptation of a Tokyo ceramics gallery.
2019–present

Published academic translations

  1. 2022 Andō, “Reading D. T. Suzuki Anew.” The Eastern Buddhist 2/1: 17–34.
  2. 2022 Niki, “The Description of Mountains in the Minoodera engi.” In Defining Shugendō: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion, ed. Andrea Castiglioni et al. Bloomsbury Academic. With Carina Roth.
  3. 2019 Igata, “Demon Roof Tiles: A Study of the Dazaifu Type Onigawara Style I-A.” Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q). With Cynthea J. Bogel
  4. 2018 Satō, “The Sea and Food Offerings for the Kami (shinsen).” In The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religiosity, ed. Fabio Rambelli. Bloomsbury Academic.
  5. 2018 Kadoya, “On a Kami Image in the Reikiki ‘Shintaizu’ Section.” Japanese Religions 42/1–2.
  6. 2018 Uejima, “Kami and Buddhism in the Nō Miwa: Rethinking the Study of the Amalgamation of Kami and Buddhas (shinbutsu shūgō).” Japanese Religions 42/1–2.
  7. 2018 Itō, “‘Shintō’ in the Muromachi Period.” Japanese Religions 42/1–2.