Japan scholar Edwin McClellan dies
Japanese literature professor Edwin McClellan, perhaps best known for his authoritative English language translation of Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro
In 1998 he was honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Other major awards include the Kikuchi Kan Prize for literature in 1994, the Noma Literary Translation Prize in 1995 and the Association for Asian Studies Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies in 2005.
His publications included translations of novels by Soseki ( “Grass on the Wayside” in addition to “Kokoro”) and Shiga Naoya (“A Dark Night’s Passing”); a translation of a memoir by Yoshikawa Eiji; a book of essays, “Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki and Toson”; and a biography of 19th-century “bluestocking” Shibue Io, “Woman in a Crested Kimono.”
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