Background
McClellan, Edwin was born on October 24, 1925 in Kobe, Japan. Son of Andrew and Teru (Yokobori) McClellan. came to the United States, 1952.
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The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a fascinating time in history.”Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha It stands clichÈs about traditional Japan on their heads. . . .Together with the people she knew, Io lives on in this literary album of old family pictures. It is well worth looking at.”Ian Buruma, New York Times Book Review A most engaging book. Seeing Shibue Io through the various lenses of her husband, her son, Tamotsu (from whom much information is gleaned), the novelist Ogai, and the biographer McClellan is an interesting, moving, disarming experience.”Donald Richie, Japan Times McClellan. . . has created a lively world, populated by women of various classes, samurai, doctors, poets, merchants, juvenile delinquents, and old eccentrics. The various incidents in which these people become involved provide a vivid picture of late Tokugawa society. This is a remarkable accomplishment.”Nakai Yoshiyuki, Monumenta Nipponica An engrossing, informative, and extremely useful book. . . . Woman in the Crested Kimono is not simply the account of one unusual Tokugawa woman. It is an evocation of a family, and through a family the entire samurai class, going from the comparative affluence of the late Tokugawa period through the turmoils of the restoration and beyond.”Susan Napier, Journal of Asian Studies Daughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen mind and fearless spirit. Edwin McClellan now draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell the story of Shibue Io, her society, and her times.
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Two writers, Natsume Soseki and Shimazaki Toson, invented the modern Japanese novel. Soseki is the eccentric novelist who appears on the 10,000 yen note. His contemporary, Shimazaki Toson, brought to Japanese fiction a lyricism previously seen only in poetry and nature writing. As revered today as they were during their own lifetimes, these two writers boldly established the novel as a major literary form in Japan.
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McClellan, Edwin was born on October 24, 1925 in Kobe, Japan. Son of Andrew and Teru (Yokobori) McClellan. came to the United States, 1952.
Master of Arts, University St. Andrews, Scotland, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1957.
Instructor English, University of Chicago, 1957-1959;
assistant professor Japanese language and literature, University of Chicago, 1959-1963;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1963-1965;
professor, University of Chicago, 1965-1970;
Carl Darling Buck professor, University of Chicago, 1970-1972;
department chairman Far Eastern languages and civilizations, University of Chicago, 1966-1972;
professor Japanese literature, Yale University, 1972-1979;
Sumitomo professor Japanese studies, Yale University, 1979-1998;
department chairman East Asian languages and literature, Yale University, 1973-1982, 88-91;
chairman council humanities, Yale University, 1975-1977;
chairman council East Asian studies, Yale University, 1979-1982;
Sterling professor Japanese literature, Yale University, since 1998. Visiting lecturer Far Eastern languages Harvard University, spring 1965. Member of advisory county department Oriental studies Princeton University, 1966-1971.
Member Committee to Visit East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1982-1988. Member American advising committee Japan Foundation, 1985-1995. Member board Council for International Exch.
Scholars, 1981-1984.
( The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japane...)
( Two writers, Natsume Soseki and Shimazaki Toson, invent...)
Board trustees Society Japanese Studies U. Washington, since 1992. Member Committee on Emerson-Thoreau Medal and American Academy Award for Humanistic Studies American Academy Arts and Sciences, since 1995. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Rachel Elizabeth Pott, May 28, 1955. Children: Andrew Lockwood, Sarah Rose.