Autor/-in: Sakae Shioya

Sakae Shioya (1873-1961) attended Tokyo's First Imperial College and came to the United States in 1901. He earned an M. A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1903 and a Ph. D. from Yale University in 1906, both in English. He translated works by contemporary Japanese writers, including Rohan Koda and Kenjiro Tokutomi. In addition to this childhood memoir published in 1906, his later works included Chushingura: An Exposition (1940).