Kanokogi Kazunobu

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Entry in Eugen Hoeflich's guest book in Vienna, March 18, 1925

Kanokogi Kazunobu ( Japanese 鹿 子 木 員 信 ; born November 3, 1884 in Tokyo Prefecture ; died December 23, 1949 ) was a Japanese nationalist religious and literary scholar who temporarily lived in Germany.

Life

Kanokogi Kazunobu came from a samurai family . Kanokogi converted to Christianity. He started out as an officer in the Navy and was used in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904/1905 . He left military service and studied theology and philosophy at the University of Kyoto and in the USA at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York ( Bachelor of Divinity (BDiV)) and at Columbia University (MA). In 1912 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena under Rudolf Eucken with a thesis on the philosophy of religion. Kanokogi learned in Jena Cornelia Zielinski (1889-1970), daughter of the Polish philologist Tadeusz Zielinski Stefan know that in Jena with a dissertation on Friedrich von Hill received his doctorate, she henceforth lived together in Japan and had the son Kanokogi Takehiko (1914- 1992), who was a member of the Japanese basketball team at the Summer Olympics in 1936 . Kanokogi later appropriately married a woman from the Iwakura family .

From 1912 to 1917 he taught philosophy at the Keiō University , from 1919 to 1923 at the University of Tokyo and from 1926 to 1939 he was professor in the literary department of the Imperial University of Fukuoka .

Kanokogi was a radical Japanese nationalist and supporter of the Pan-Asian organization Yūzonsha . He was an admirer of Gandhi ; he lived in British India from 1918 to 1921, and was an enemy agent for the British colonial administration. His political views became radicalized, also based on Karl Haushofer's nationalistic geopolitical philosophy .

Kanokogi stayed several times in Germany and was then an employee of the Japan Institute, which was set up in Berlin in 1925, and in 1929/32 the editor of the Yamato magazine of the German-Japanese Society . In 1925 he was a guest at Eugen Hoeflich's in Vienna for four days , and they exchanged views on the Japanese and Jewish Pan-Asian movements . In the winter semesters 1927/28 and 1928/29 he held lectures at the Berlin University , which he summarized in the book Der Geist Japans .

During the Sino-Japanese War , which broke out in 1937 , he took a leave of absence in 1939 to carry out propaganda work for the war aims as general secretary and right-hand man of the chairman of the Japanese writers' association Tokutomi Sohō , and he also traveled through the occupied territories. After the end of the Pacific War , on November 17, 1945, Kanokogi was placed on the list of Class A war criminals by the US occupation forces to be tried by an international court of law for sparking the armed conflicts of 1931, 1937 and 1941 but released from detention due to poor health and not brought to justice.

Fonts (selection)

The Spirit of Japan (1930)
  • The religious. An attempt at the philosophy of religion. Thomas & Hubert, Weida 1912, (Jena, University, dissertation, 1912).
  • Gandhi. The spirit of the Indian revolution. Buchdruckerei Nerger & Co., Berlin-Charlottenburg 1924, (The essays first appeared in Japanese in 1919 in the monthly publications “Toho Dschiron” and “Kaizo”).
  • The Spirit of Japan (= Japan Institute. Publications. 3, ZDB -ID 1216250-4 ). Publishing house of "Asia Major", Leipzig 1930.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Bieber : SS and Samurai. German-Japanese cultural relations 1933–1945 (= monographs from the German Institute for Japanese Studies. 55). Iudicium, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86205-043-7 .
  • Günther Haasch (Ed.): The German-Japanese Societies from 1888 to 1996. Colloquium, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89166-192-4 .
  • Christopher WA Szpilman: Kanokogi Kazunobu: "Imperial Asia", 1937. In: Sven Saaler, Christopher WA Szpilman (ed.): Pan-Asianism. A Documentary History. Volume 2: 1920 - Present. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD et al. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4422-0599-4 , pp. 149-153.
  • Christopher WA Szpilman: Kanokogi Kazunobu: Pioneer of Platonic Fascism and Imperial Pan-Asianism. In: Monumenta Nipponica . Vol. 68, No. 2, 2013, pp. 233-280, ( jstor ).
  • Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich: Diaries 1915 to 1927. Böhlau, Wien et al. 1999, ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , short vita on p. 524.
  • Cornelia Zielinski-Kanokogi: Hokkaido ride. Ikubundo, Tokyo 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Zielinski: The concept of mysticism in Baron Friedrich von Hügels work "The Mystical element of religion". Explanation and criticism. A. Fights, Jena 1913.
  2. ↑ The Japanese-German Kanokogi family , at Studienwerk German Life in East Asia
  3. ^ Richard J. Popplewell: Intelligence and imperial defense. British intelligence and the defense of the Indian Empire, 1904-1924. Cass, London 1995, ISBN 0-7146-4580-X , p. 282.
  4. ↑ See Hoeflich's diary entry of March 23, 1925, p. 221 and 528, and the correspondence between Hoeflich and Hans Kohn , p. 532 f. and p. 534 f. and with Robert Weltsch , p. 836 f. There also Kanokogi's greeting address on the foundation of the Hebrew University , which was printed under the title Die prophetische Sendung in the Jüdische Rundschau , Volume 30, No. 32, of April 24, 1925, page 291 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kanokogi is the family name, Kazunobu the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kanokogi, Kazunobu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鹿 子 木 員 信 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1949