Royall Tyler is the most recent translator of The Tale of Genji (Penguin, 2001). He lives in Australia.

Translations of 19 nô and nine kyôgen plays seeking to "produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of nô in the original.- Susan Matisoff (Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese)