Cecilia Segawa SeigleCecilia Segawa Seigle is Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Japan, she came to the United States in 1954, receiving her B.A. from Western Colleg for Women, M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book was Yoshiwara - the Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan, followed by numerous others including The Family by Toson Shimazaki, and Darkness in Summer and Five Thousand Runaways by Takeshi Kaikō, as well as co-translating The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima with E. Dale Saunders. Read More Read Less