Ichiko Teiji

Ichiko Teiji ( Japanese 市 古 貞 次 ; born May 5, 1911 in Kōfu ( Yamanashi Prefecture ); died March 25, 2004 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese literary scholar with a focus on premodern literature.

Live and act

Ichiko Teiji is graduating from Tōkyō University . In 1954 he became an assistant professor, in 1957 a professor at his alma mater and in 1962 the first director of the “ National Research Institute for Japanese Literature ”. In 2000 he became President of the Academy of Sciences . Ichiko made a great contribution to the organization of the documents on classical Japanese literature.

Ichiko's larger works include the "Study of Medieval Novels" (中 世 小説 の 研究, Chūsei shōsetsu no kenkyū), in which he classified more than 300 Otogi stories . Ichiko played a leading role in the "General Catalog of National Literature" (国書 総 目録, Kokusho sō-mokuroku), which appeared from 1963 to 1976. The catalog fully contained books, anthologies, and works translated into Japanese up to the end of the Tokugawa period in 1867. The catalog identified the locations of the original handwritten copies or printed editions and provided basic information on the authors, the date of publication, the number of volumes and classifying information.

In 1964 Ichiko was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

Remarks

1. ↑ Otogi shōsetsu (御 伽 草 子) were folk tales that were published from the Kamakura period to the Edo period .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ichiko Teiji . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 582.

Web links

• Biographies Ichiko Teiji in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ichiko is the family name, Teiji the first name.