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Edward G. Seidensticker
Edward G. Seidensticker
	; Edward G. Seidensticker, Fall 2006
Born	February 11, 1921; Castle Rock, Colorado, U.S.
Died	August 26, 2007 (age 86); Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Translator of Japanese Literature; Writer; Author
Nationality	American
Period	1950–2006

Edward George Seidensticker (February 11, 1921 – August 26, 2007) was a noted post-World War II scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature. His English translation of the epic The Tale of Genji, published in 1976, was especially well received critically and is counted among the preferred modern translations.^[1]

Seidensticker is closely associated with the work of three major Japanese writers of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima. His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata, in particular Snow County (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1958), led, in part, to Kawabata being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.^[2]

Contents
1Biography
1.1Early years
1.2U.S. Navy Japanese Language School
1.3War years
1.4Occupation of Japan and foreign service
1.5Scholar, educator, and latter years
2Translator
3Japanologist
3.1Honors
4Selected works
5References
6Further reading

エドワード・ジョージ・サイデンステッカー（Edward George Seidensticker, 1921年 2月11日 - 2007年 8月26日）は、日本文学作品の翻訳を通して、日本の文化を広く紹介したアメリカ人の日本学者。より正確には「サイデンスティッカー」だが、親しみをこめて「サイデンさん」などと呼ばれることもある。

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35:40 243 閱讀川端康成『山之音』小說與電影之心得 2018 Sept.
Seidensticker won the National Book Award in category Translation for his edition of Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain (a split award).^[17]

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He also translated The Decay of the Angel, the last volume of Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, and several of Mishima's stories. Seidensticker translated Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters and Some Prefer Nettles and authored important criticism on Tanizaki's place in 20th-century Japanese literature. The New York Times obituary allowed the translator to speak for himself:

During his years in Japan Mr. Seidensticker became friends with many of the writers he translated, though the friendships were sometimes tested during the delicate diplomatic dance that is central to the translator’s art. As Mr. Seidensticker recalled in Tokyo Central, some writers required more dancing than others:

"Tanizaki wrote clear, rational sentences," Mr. Seidensticker wrote. "I do not, certainly, wish to suggest that I disapprove of such sentences; but translating them is not very interesting. There was little I felt inclined to ask Tanizaki about."

Not so with Kawabata. "Do you not, my esteemed master, find this a rather impenetrable passage?" Mr. Seidensticker recalled asking him, ever so gently, during the translation of Snow Country.

"He would dutifully scrutinize the passage, and answer: 'Yes,' " Mr. Seidensticker wrote. "Nothing more."^[12]

The last work he supervised translating into English was You Were Born for a Reason on Japanese Buddhism.^[18]^{[not in citation given]}

Japanologist[edit]

Seidensticker wrote widely on Japan, its people, as well as the city of Tokyo.

His first major non-translation work, "Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879–1959" (Stanford University Press, 1965), was a biography of Kafu Nagai, the Japanese writer who is noted for his sensitive depictions of the denizens of Tokyo's pleasure quarters. It was the first study to examine the life and works of Nagai to appear in any Western language. As the book includes a number of Seidensticker translations of Nagai's short stories and novellas, it is neither pure biography nor criticism. Seidensticker, to his lifelong regret, never met Kafū, even though there were opportunities to be introduced.^[19]

In Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (1983) and Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake (1990), Seidensticker's two-volume history of Tokyo, he weaves a tale of cultural history of how the city was impacted by the advent of Westernization, and how it responded to the twin disasters of the 20th Century—the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 and the massive destruction incurred in World War II due to Allied bombing raids.

In his academic career, he is credited with being a teacher for his peers.

He published his autobiographical observations in Tokyo Central: A Memoir in 2001. A biography and bibliography are included in a commemorative work created by those whose lives he affected, New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker (1993).

After retirement, he divided his time between Honolulu and Tokyo, which he described as "the world's most consistently interesting city."^[20]

著書[編集]

1955年

Japan、(New York:Time inc, 1961).
『日本語らしい表現から英語らしい表現へ』（那須聖との共著, 培風館, 1962年）
『現代日本作家論』（佐伯彰一訳新潮社 1964)
Kafū the Scribbler: the life and writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879-1959(Stanford University Press, 1965).
『異形の小説』安西徹雄編訳、南窓社、1972
『湯島の宿にて』安西徹雄訳、蝸牛社、1976
『日本語とわたし』（Japanese and I）渡部昇一・安西徹雄編注、朝日出版社、1977
Genji Days, 1977(『源氏日記』安西徹雄訳、講談社、1980)
『日本人とアメリカ人』（Japanese and Americans）海老根宏編注、朝日出版社、1978（教科書版）
『私のニッポン日記』安西徹雄訳、講談社現代新書、1982
Low city, high city: Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake, 1983
　『東京下町・山の手』安西徹雄訳、TBSブリタニカ、1986。ちくま学芸文庫 1992／講談社学術文庫 2013　
『西洋の源氏日本の源氏』笠間書院、1984
Tokyo rising: the city since the great earthquake, 1990(『立ち上がる東京』安西徹雄訳、早川書房、1992)
『日本との50年戦争ひと・くに・ことば』安西徹雄訳、朝日新聞社、1994
『好きな日本好きになれない日本（Lovable Japan,less lovable Japan）』廣済堂出版、1998
『流れゆく日々サイデンステッカー自伝』安西徹雄訳、時事通信、2004
『世界文学としての源氏物語サイデンステッカー氏に訊く』伊井春樹編、笠間書院、2005
『谷中、花と墓地』みすず書房、2008（自身による日本語著作）

編著[編集]

（松本道弘との共編）『日米口語辞典』朝日出版社、1977（のち最新版）
『私の東京』百瀬博教との共著、富士見書房、1989

翻訳[編集]

The Kagerō Nikki: Journal of a 10th Century Noblewoman、1955（蜻蛉日記、のち The Gossamer Years: the Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japanと改題）
Japanese Music and Drama in the Meiji Era、(小宮豊隆著, Obunsha, 1956)
Some Prefer Nettles (谷崎「蓼喰ふ蟲」, Knopf, 1955）.
Snow Country (川端「雪国」, C.E.Tuttle , 1956）.
The Makioka Sisters（谷崎「細雪」, Knopf, 1957）.
Thousand Cranes（川端「千羽鶴」, 1958）.
The Izu Dancer（川端「伊豆の踊子」, 1964）.
Lou-lan（井上靖「楼蘭」, 原書房, 1964）.
「時間」（横光利一）原書房、1965
The Hateful Age（丹羽文雄「厭がらせの年齢」, 原書房, 1965）.
A Strange Tale from the East of the River （荷風「濹東綺譚」, C.E. Tuttle , 1965）.
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (川端「美しい日本の私―その序説」ノーベル賞受賞講演)講談社現代新書、1969
House of the Sleeping Beauties (川端「眠れる美女」, 1969）.
Sound of the Mountain (川端「山の音」, 1970）.
The Master of Go （川端「名人」, 1972）.
The Decay of the Angel （三島「天人五衰」, 1975）.
The Tale of Genji(Knopf, 1976).
YOU WERE BORN FOR A REASON （明橋,伊藤「なぜ生きる」（監修））.

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Prize share: 1/1

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 was awarded to Yasunari Kawabata "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/summary/

川端康成諾貝爾獎演說：日文、英文
Yasunari Kawabata – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
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川端康成 Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972)

川端康成《日本的美與我》喬炳南譯，台北：臺灣商務，1970/1985 三版

學者‧英譯家 Edward Seidensticker(1921~2007)

中譯者喬炳，只知道在日本任教(70~80年代)，我未有進一步消息。

.....山水.....從庭園的意義，又引申為「優雅古趣」，以及「寂靜、清瘦」的旨趣。但是，「和敬清寂」的茶道所尊重的「幽靜古雅」指的當然是潛藏於「心」中的豐盛.......

..,In the Oriental word for landscape, literally "mountain water," with its related implications in landscape painting and landscape gardening, there is contained the concept of the sere and wasted, and even of the sad and the threadbare. Yet in the sad, austere, autumnal qualities so valued by the tea ceremony, itself summarized in the expression "gentally respectful, cleanly quiet," there lies concealed a great richness of spirit; ......

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Edward G. Seidensticker
Edward G. Seidensticker, Fall 2006
Born	February 11, 1921 Castle Rock, Colorado, U.S.
Died	August 26, 2007 (age 86) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Translator of Japanese Literature; Writer; Author
Nationality	American
Period	1950–2006

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Japanologist[edit]

著書[編集]

編著[編集]

翻訳[編集]

2023年2月9日 星期四

H. T. Webster(1885-1952)： The Timid Soul (1952.10.5)漫畫的翻譯不簡單ㄝ曹整理的胡適之 日記的翻譯，錯誤多

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H. T. Webster(1885-1952)： The Timid Soul (1952.10.5)漫畫的翻譯不簡單ㄝ曹整理的胡適之日記的翻譯，錯誤多

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