Seidensticker, Edward George (1921–2007)

US scholar, translator, and educator. He is best known for his masterly translation of Shikibu Murasaki's famous 11th-century Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji (1976). He taught Japanese at the University of Michigan, 1966–77, and at Columbia University, 1977–85.

He translated the works of several 20th-century Japanese writers, including Yasunari Kawabata, who in 1968 became the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seidensticker won a 1971 National Book Award for his translation of Kawabata's novel The Sound of the Mountain. He published a memoir, Tokyo Central, in 2002.