- BA, Western College for Women, 1957
- MA, Bryn Mawr College, 1959
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Oriental Studies, 1971
Cultural history of Edo period women. Public perception of women of all classes: gossips, rumors, accolades, recorded in Edo period essays.
HISTORICAL PERIOD: Heian (794-1185); Tokugawa (1600-1868).
SPECIALIZATION: Edo period urban society; cultural and social change; women of the Edo period: gender, sex roles, folklore, marriage, family, kinship; social life, socio-cultural interests; leisure; popular culture.
BOOKS:
Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. Yoshiwara - The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan, (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press 1993)
Segawa, Yoshiko (Seigle, Cecila Segawa) Kojo Shinanomiya no nichijo seikatsu [The Every-day Life of Imperial Princess Shinanmiya: Reading the Mujohoin-dono diary] in Japanese. (Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami Shoten 2001)
Seigle, Cecilia Segawa and Linda Chance. Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women. (New York and London: Cambria Press, 2014)
TRANSLATIONS by Cecilia Segawa Seigle:
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima, co-translator E. Dale Saunders (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973)
Darkness in Summer by Takeshi Kaikō (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973)
The Family (Ie) by Shimazaki Tōson (Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1976)
Into a Black Sun by Takeshi Kaikō (Tokyo: Kōdansha International, 1980)
Five Thousand Runaways by Takeshi Kaikō (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987)
and a few other short stories
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS by Cecilia Segawa Seigle: (Yoshiko Segawa)
江戸時代女性の噂話 in Japanese –complete book 瀬川淑子
http://works.bepress.com/cecilia_seigle
“Gift-Giving and Gift Exchanges in the Ôoku”
http://works.bepress.com/cecilia_seigle
"Some Observations on the Weddings of Tokugawa Shogun’s Daughters”
http://works.bepress.com/cecilia_seigle
30年前のブログ (“Blogs of 30 years ago”)
http://works.bepress.com/cecilia_seigle/29
MAJOR ESSAYS:
“The Shogun’s Consort: Konoe Hiroko and Tokugawa Ienobu” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol 59: No. 2 (December 1999)
“Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady,” The Human Tradition: Modern Japan,(Wilmington, Delaware: A Scholarly Resources Inc., Ltd. 2002)
“The Courtesan’s Clock,” in A Courtesan’s Day: hour by hour, with Alfred H. Marks, et al. (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2004);
“The Decorousness of the Yoshiwara - A Rejection of Shunga” and
“Expectations and Disappointments of Yoshiwara Visitors”, both essays in Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period, edited by Chris Uhlenbeck and Margarita Winkel, (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Association for Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic RegionOriental Club of Philadelphia PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Editor, WFLN Philadelphia Guide, Franklin Broadcasting Co. Head, East Asian Section, Science Information Services, The Franklin Institute Research Labs Director of Membership, The Franklin Institute
