"The scholarship is high throughout; I read everything with pleasure. The editors deserve a great deal of credit for their efforts."
--Marian Ury in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

"A formidable volume of scholarship."
--James O'Brien in the Journal of the American Oriental Society

"[An] interesting and elegant collection honoring a man seminal to modern Japanese studies."
--Donald Richie in The Japan Times

In New Leaves, fourteen former students honor their mentor, Edward Seidensticker, with a collection of essays and translations focusing on Japanese literature from the eleventh century to the 1980s. The breadth and quality of the contributions stand as a fitting testament to Seidensticker's many contributions to the field as a teacher, scholar, and translator.

Contributors include: Paul Anderer, Robert Borgen, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Anthony Hood Chambers, Rebecca L. Copeland, Edwin A. Cranston, William Currie, S.J., Aileen Gatten, Thomas Blenman Hare, T. J. Harper, Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Haruo Shirane, Frank Joseph Shulman, and Carl F. Taeusch II.