Otake Fumio

Otake Fumio ( Japanese 小竹 文 夫 ; born January 18, 1900 in Ishikawa Prefecture ; died October 16, 1962 ) was a Japanese sinologist .

Life

Otake was a graduate of the University of Kyoto and later professor at the Japanese University of Tōa Dōbun Shoin ( 東亞 同 文書 院 ), a forerunner of Aichi University, which was founded in 1939 by Tōa Dōbunkai ( 東亞 同 文 會 ) in Shanghai , then at the university Kanazawa and the Tōkyō University of Education ( 東京 教育 大學 ).

Otake was u. a. a specialist in the modern history of China . His main work, however, is a complete translation of the chronicler's notes by Sima Qian into Japanese, which he wrote together with his brother Otake Takeo ( 小竹 武夫 ).

Works

• Otake Fumio, Otake Takeo ( transl .), Sima Qian: Shiki gendaigo yaku 『史記 現代 語 訳』 , 7 volumes. Kōbundō, Tokyo 1957–1958.

Web links

• 小竹 文 夫 in 日本人 名 大 辞典 (Japanese)

Footnotes

1. ^ Douglas R. Reynolds: Training Young China Hands. Tō-A Dōbun Shoin and Its Precursors, 1886-1945. In: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie (eds.): The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895–1937 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. 224-227.
2. ^ Noriko Kamachi, John King Fairbank , Chūzō Ichiko: Japanese Studies of Modern China Since 1953. A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . Harvard University Press, 1975, p. 29.

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