Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda

Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda is a Polish Japanologist and translator of Japanese literature, born in Warsaw in 1950. She studied Japanese language and literature at the University of Warsaw (1968–1973), received her PhD in 2004 and has taught Japanese literature at the university. Since her first volume of classical haiku translations in 1983 she has published Polish translations of Matsuo Bashō's travel diaries, of Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book (in part) and of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings.