Felicia Ray Gressitt Bock (October 28, 1916 – December 29, 2011) 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 .
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10-1003: A course in Japanese culture for the University of California Extension in the 1960s. Her collection of Japanese fans was exhibited in Alameda in 1975. She was active in the Seven College Council of the East Bay. She provided a grant to help launch the Japanese Historical Text Initiative at Berkeley, and endowed a professorship at Mount Holyoke College, known as the Felicia Gressitt Bock Chair in Asian Studies. In 2003, she gave an oral history interview to
15-805: The Romans from the earliest times to the Augustan age". Later, she earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in East Asian languages from the University of California . Her dissertation was titled "" Engi-shiki : Ceremonial Procedures of the Engi Era, 901-922" (1966). Bock worked at the Library of Congress during World War II , and did translation work for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). She taught
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25-628: Was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of James Fullerton Gressitt and Edna Eunice Linsley Gressitt. She was raised in Japan, where her parents were American Baptist missionaries. Her brother Judson Linsley Gressitt , her uncle Earle Garfield Linsley and her cousin Earle Gorton Linsley were all noted scientists. Gressitt graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1936 with an undergraduate honors thesis titled "The scientific knowledge of
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