Felicia Gressitt Bock

Felicia Gressitt Bock
A young white woman with curly blonde hair, wearing a plaid dress with a pin at the throat
Felicia Gressitt (later Bock), from a 1936 photo in the files of Mount Holyoke College
Born
Felicia Ray Gressitt

October 28, 1916
Tokyo, Japan
DiedDecember 29, 2011 (age 95)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Translator, scholar
Notable workannotated translation of the Engishiki (1970–1972)
Children3, including Audie Bock
RelativesJudson Linsley Gressitt (brother), Earle Gorton Linsley (cousin)

Felicia Ray Gressitt Bock (October 28, 1916 – December 29, 2011)[1] was an American scholar and translator of Japanese folklore and history. She helped launch the Japanese Historical Text Initiative at Berkeley, and is best known for her two-volume translation of the Engishiki, a civil code from Engi-era Japan.

  1. ^ Birth and death dates from the U.S. Social Security Death Index, via Ancestry.