Koganei Yoshikiyo

Koganei Yoshikiyo

Koganei Yoshikiyo.

Koganei Yoshikiyo ( Japanese 小 金井 良 精 ; born January 17, 1859 in Nagaoka ( Echigo Province ); died October 16, 1944 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese medic and anthropologist.

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Koganei Yoshikiyo was born the son of Koganei Yoshimichi (小 金井 良 達), Samurai of the Nagaoka-Han. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of Tōkyō University in 1880 , where he had been taught anatomy by Wilhelm Schultze . He then went to Germany for five years to continue his education at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . One of his teachers there was Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz , who made him his assistant. After his return in 1885, he was initially a lecturer at his alma mater. In 1886 he became the first anatomy professor in Japan.

Koganei studied the anatomy and bone structure of the Ainu and published his results from 1904 to 1905 as "Research on the Ainu" (ア イ ヌ 族 の 研究, Ainu-zoku no kenkyū). He had concluded that the Ainu were the Stone Age population of Japan.

Koganei was a member of various anthropological societies at home and abroad.

Fonts

• Contributions to the physical anthropology of the Ai͏̈no
• The basin of the Ainos and the Japanese
• Preface to the catalog of the book collection of Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
• Measurements on Chinese soldiers
• Over 4 Korean skulls
• About the indigenous people of Japan
• Investigations on the skeleton
• Research on anthropology (人類学 研究, Jinruigaku kenkyū)
• Practical anatomy (実 用 解剖学, Jitsuyō kaibōgaku)
• Koganei Yoshikiyo Diary (小 金井良 精 日記 Koganei Yoshikiyo nikki)
• Collection of contributions to the anthropology of Japan (日本 の 人類学 文献 選集, Nihon no jinrui bunken-shū)
• The Stone Age inhabitants of Japan (日本 石器時代 住民, Nihon sekki-jidai no jūmin)
• About the changes in the teeth of the Stone Age inhabitants of Japan (日本 石器時代 人 の 歯 牙 を 変 形 す る 風 習 に 就 て, Nihon sekki-jidai-jin no shika o henkei suru fūshū ni tsuite)

Remarks

1. ↑ Portrait, painted by Wada Eisaku
2. ↑ Today Niigata Prefecture .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Koganei Yoshikiyo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 809.

Web links

• Koganei Yoshikiyo in the Kotobank, Japanese

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