Edward Seidensticker - Selected Works

Selected Works

Author

• 2006 -- The Snake That Bowed. Berkeley: Printed Matter Press. 10-ISBN 1-933606-03-7; 13-ISBN 978-1-933606-03-3; OCLC 190850945

• 2002 -- Tokyo Central: A Memoir. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 10-ISBN 0-295-98134-2; 13-ISBN 978-0-295-98134-5

• 1994 -- Very Few People Come This Way: Lyrical Episodes from the Year of the Rabbit. Brighton : In Print. 10-ISBN 1-873047-31-2; 13-ISBN 978-1-873047-31-6; OCLC 32204582

• 1990 -- Tokyo Rising. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 10-ISBN 0-394-54360-2; 13-ISBN 978-0-394-54360-4 (cloth)
  • McInerney, Jay. "The City that Disappeared Twice," New York Times. April 1, 1990.
  • Waley, Paul. "Review: Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 144-146.

• 1984 -- Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: How the Shogun's Ancient Capital Became a Great Modern City, 1867-1923. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 10-ISBN 0-394-50730-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-394-50730-9 (cloth) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991. 10-ISBN 0-674-53939-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-53939-6 (paper)]
  • Christopher, Robert C. "Meiji Modernizing," New York Times. September 11, 1983.
  • Miller, Roy Andrew. "Review: Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker," Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter, 1984), pp. 232-236.
  • Smith, Henry. "Review: Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 206-210.

• 1979 -- This Country, Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International. OCLC 5462992
• 1977 -- Genji Days. Tokyo: Kodansha International. 10-ISBN 0-87011-296-1; 13-ISBN 978-0-87011-296-6; OCLC 3738055

• __________. (____).

• 1965 -- Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959.
• 1964 -- Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. (A translation of Kagerō Nikki.) Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. 10-ISBN 0-8048-1123-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-8048-1123-1

• 1961 -- Japan.

Translator

• Inoue Yasushi. Lou-Lan and Other Stories.

• Kawabata Yasunari. (1956; revision 1989). Snow Country
• __________. (1969). House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories.
• __________. (1959). Thousand Cranes
• __________. (1970). The Sound of the Mountain
• __________. (1972). The Master of Go.

• Mishima Yukio. (1974). The Decay of the Angel

• Murasaki Shikibu. (1976). The Tale of Genji.
  • Pritchett, V.S. "Broken Blossoms," New York Review of Books, Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 3, 1977).

Broken Blossoms By V.S. Pritchett The Tale of Genji

• Tanizaki Junichiro. (1955). Some Prefer Nettles.
• __________. (1957). The Makioka Sisters
• __________. (____). In Praise of Shadows

• Niwa Fumio. (1953). A Touch of Shyness.