Naitō Torajirō
Naitō Torajirō ( Japanese 内藤 虎 次郎 , born August 27, 1866 ; died June 26, 1934 ) or under the writer's name Naitō Konan ( 内藤 湖南 ) was a Japanese historian and sinologist . He was the founder of the Kyoto School of Historiography and, along with Shiratori Kurakichi (the founder of the Tokyo School of Historiography ), was one of the leading Japanese historians in East Asia in the early 20th century. His best known book is called Nara .
Life
Naitō Torajirō was born in what is now Akita Prefecture. He distinguished himself as a journalist and discovered the Manwen Laodang documents in Mukden in 1907 . As an authority in the field of Chinese history, he was invited by Kano Kokichi to come to Kyoto University in 1907 and became one of the co-founders of the Department of Oriental History. He died on June 26, 1934.
Teaching
Naitōs most influential contributions to historiography was the evaluation of the Tang-Song Transition ( Five Dynasties and Ten Empires ). He argued that the social, political, demographic, and economic changes from the mid- Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty marked the transition between the medieval ( chūsei ) and early modern ( kinsei ) periods of Chinese history.
In Japanese history, one of his main theses was that Yamatai was in the Kyushu area rather than Kinki .
Works
- Nihon bunkashi kenkyu. 1924 (42 editions until 1997)
- Shina shigakushi. 1949
- Shina kaigashi. 1938 (15 editions until 2002)
- Shina ron: tsuketari shin Shina ron. 1914 and 1942
- Naitō Hakushi kanreki shukuga Shina-gaku ronsō. (Tōru Haneda (ed.)), 1926
- Dong yang wen hua shi yan jiu. 1936
- Shinchō shi tsūron. 1944
literature
- Joshua A. Fogel: Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866-1934) . Harvard, 1984.
- Miyakawa, Hisayuki: An Outline of the Naito Hypothesis and Its Effect on Japanese Studies of China. In: Far Eastern Quarterly 14.4 (1955): 533-552.
- Rub xue ren Zhongguo fang shu ji. ("Japanology Scholars in China" ??)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Naitō Torajirō in the bibliographic database WorldCat
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| SURNAME | Naitō, Torajirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 内藤 虎 次郎 (Japanese); 内藤 湖南 (writer's name, Japanese); Naitō Konan (writer's name, Japanese); Nei-t'eng, Hu (Chinese); 나이토 고난 (Korean); Nei-t'eng, Hu-tz'u-lang; Neiteng, Hucilang; Neiteng, Hunan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese sinologist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akita Prefecture , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1934 |