Arthur Lindsay Sadler

Arthur Lindsay Sadler 1922

Arthur Lindsay Sadler (born November 19, 1882 in Hackney , London , Middlesex , England , † July 13, 1970 in Braintree , Essex , England) was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney .

Sadler attended Dulwich College, the Merchant Taylors' School in London and St John's College in Oxford (BA, 1908; MA, 1911). He was a Pusey-Ellerton Fellow in Hebrew (1903), Kennicott Junior Fellow in Hebrew (1907), won the Junior Septuagint Prize (1907) and graduated summa cum laude in Oriental Languages ​​(Hebrew and Assyrian) .

Between 1922 and 1948 Sadler was the Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney. He also taught at the Royal Military College . His publications include A Short History of Japanese Architecture , Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony . He translated The Ten Foot Square Hut (the Hōjōki ), excerpts from the Heike Monogatari and The Code of The Samurai: Budo Shoshinshu into English.

After his retirement he returned to England and settled in the village of Great Bardfield in Essex . He associated with some of the Great Bardfield Artists including Edward Bawden (1903-1989), Stanley Clifford-Smith (1906-1988) and Michael Rothenstein (1908-1993). He spent his final years at Buck's House , Great Bardfield, which he had bought from his friend Stanley Clifford-Smith.

Works

• 'The Art of flower arrangement in Japan: A sketch of its history and development', London: Country Life 1933.
• 'Cha-no-yu: The Japanese tea ceremony', London: Kegan Paul et al. 1933.
• 'The Maker of modern Japan: The life of Tokugawa Ieyasu', London: Allen & Unwin 1937.
• 'A short History of Japanese architecture', Sydney et al .: Angus & Robertson 1941.
• 'A short History of Japan', Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1962.
• Appendix to Okakura Kakuzō : 'The book of tea; a Japanese harmony of art culture and the simple life ', Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1935.

Translations

• 'The Heike Monogatari', Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1918.
• Go-Mizunoo : 'The Emperor Go-Mizuno-In's Kocho, privately printed 1922.
• 'Japanese Plays: No-Kyogen-Kabuki', Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1934.
• Saka Jūbutsu : 'The Ise Daijingū sankeiki, or Diary of a pilgrim to Ise', Tokyo: Zaidan Hôjin Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai 2600: 1940.
• Yūzan Daidōji : 'The code of the Samurai', Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1941.
• 'Selections from the Confucian Texts', Glebe: Australasian Medical Pub. Co, 1942.
• 'Selections from Modern Japanese Writers', Glebe: Australasian Medical Pub. Co, 1942. and
• 'Selections from modern Japanese writers: English translation', Glebe: Australasian Medical Pub. Co, 1943.
• Wu Qi , Sunzi , Sima Rangju: 'Three Military Classics of China', Sydney: Australasian Medical Pub. Co, 1944.
• 'The ten foot square hut and Tales of the Heike: being two thirteenth century Japanese classics, the "Hōjōki" and selections from the "Heike monogatari"', Rutland, Ver .: Tuttle 1979.
• Kamo no Chōmei : The Hō-Jō-Ki. Honolulu: Privately printed 1950.

Essays

• 'The Naval Campaign in the Korean War of Hideyoshi (1592-1598)', in: Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Second Series, 14 (June 1937), pp. 179-208.
• 'Chanoyu or the Tea Philosophy of Japan. A Western Evaluation ', in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 10 (Oct. 1929), pp. 635-644. Honolulu 1929.

literature

• Douglas Moore Kenrick: A century of Western studies of Japan: the first hundred years of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1872-1972. in: The transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan; Ser. 3. Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 170, 171.

swell

• Joyce Ackroyd: Sadler, Arthur Lindsay (1882-1970). in: Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 11. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 505-506.