Tamura (1966) A Green Thought (1967) New Year’s Letter (1973) Dead Language (1976) Misunderstanding (1978) Water Hemisphere (1980) A Little Bird Laughed (1981) The Water Mills of Scotland (1982) Five Minutes to Go (1982) A Cheerful End of the Century (1983) The Joy of A Slave (1984) A Wine Red Summer Solstice (1985) A Poison Cup (1986) The Joy of Living (1988) From the New World (1990) My Sailing Journal (1991) Hummingbird (1992) The Ashen Colored Notebook (1993) Foxglove (1995) 1999 (1998) The Traveler Returned (1998) Selected translation works Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Peril at End House, Three Act Tragedy, The A.B.C. Murders, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly Miss Marple The Murder at the Vicarage, A Murder Is Announced, They Do It with Mirrors Other Works and Collections The Secret Adversary, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Towards Zero, Crooked House Lloyd Alexander - The Towncats and Other Tales Eric Ambler - Epitaph for a Spy L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus Anthony Browne - Bear Hunt Donald Crews - Freight Train Freeman Wills Crofts - The Cask Roald Dahl - Someone Like You, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, My Uncle Oswald Evan Hunter - Criminal Conversation Roger Hargreaves - Mr. Happy, Mr. Nosey, Mr. Daydream, Mr. Silly, Mr. Small, Mr. Greedy, Mr. Bump, Mr. Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Uppity, Mr. Tickle, Mr. Messy, Mr. Sneeze (Some stories from Mr. Men Series) Theo. LeSieg - Ten Apples Up on Top! Bill Peet - Kermit the Hermit, Buford the Little Bighorn Ellery Queen - The Tragedy of X, The Tragedy of Y, The Tragedy Of Z, Drury Lane's Last Case (Drury Lane Series) Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire Tomi Ungerer - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Zeralda's Ogre, The Beast of Monsieur Racine, Moon Man, The Hut External links bio with list of works and photos obituary References Tamura, Ryuichi. Poems 1946-1998. Trans. Samuel Grolmes & Tsumura Yumiko. CCC Press (2000). 1923 births 1998 deaths People from Tokyo Meiji University alumni Japanese essayists Japanese translators Deaths from esophageal cancer Deaths from cancer in Japan 20th-century translators 20th-century Japanese poets International Writing Program