Kuwabara Takeo

Kuwabara Takeo ( Japanese 桑 原 武夫 ; born May 10, 1904 in Tsuruga in Fukui Prefecture ; † April 10, 1988 ) was a Japanese literary scholar and translator.

The son of the sinologist Kuwabara Jitsuzōs studied French literature and culture at the University of Kyoto until 1926 . He was from 1943 to 1948 professor at Tohoku University , then at Kyoto University. He translated works by Stendhal and Alain , among others , as well as literary writings into Japanese. For his font Rousseau kenkyū (" Rousseau research") he received the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1951 , and in 1974 he was awarded the Asahi Prize . In 1979 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits ( Bunka Kōrōsha ) and was awarded the Cultural Order in 1987 .

In his honor, the " Kuwabara Takeo Art and Science Prize " ( 桑 原 武夫 学 芸 賞 ) was established in 1998 .

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• S. Noma (Ed.): Kuwabara Takeo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 851.
• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. New edition: Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-01753-6 , p. 582.
• John Scott Miller: Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater , Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7 , p. 61.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Ushio publishing house ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 

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