Nakada Kaoru

Nakada Kaoru

Nakada Kaoru ( Japanese 中 田 薫 ; born March 1, 1877 in Kofu ( Yamanashi Prefecture ); died November 21, 1967 ) was a Japanese legal historian.

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Nakada Kaoru graduated from Tokyo University in 1900 , where he studied Kamakura-era judicial institutions . In 1902 he was admitted to the Faculty of Law, and from 1908 to 1911 he was sent to Europe for further training by the Ministry of Culture. After his return in 1911 he became a full professor.

Nakada is best known as the founder of the study of legal history in Japan as a discipline of science, but he was also interested in related history in China and Europe. From 1927 Nakada turned primarily to the research of judicial institutions of the premodern and early modern. His successor was Ishii Ryōsuke .

In 1946 Nakada was awarded the Order of Culture , in 1951 as a person with special cultural merits .

Nakada's writings include “Ōchō-jiidai no shōen ni kan-suru kenkyū” (王朝 時代 の 庄園 に 関 す る 研究) 1906, “Investigations into manorial rule in the pre- Kamakura period ”, “Meiji shonen no iriaiken” (明治 初年 の入会 権) 1928, "Common land law in the early Meiji period." His experience of Europe was reflected in the works on Western, German and French legal history: "Seiyō hōsei-shi" (西洋 法制史) 1928, "Doitsu hōsei- shi ”(獨 逸 法制史) 1933,“ Furansu hōsei-shi ”(仏 蘭西 法制史) 1936.

Remarks

1. ↑ Since the imperial cultural order is not allowed to be associated with money allocations, in 1951 the distinction "person with special cultural merits" was introduced on a normal household basis; it is associated with an honorary salary. As a rule, this minor distinction is awarded first, then - not in every case - the cultural medal. Those who were awarded the Cultural Order before 1951 received the distinction of “person with special cultural merits” and the honorary salary retrospectively.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Nakada Kaoru . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1037.

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