Tachibana Zuicho

Tachibana Zuichō ( Japanese 橘 瑞超 , Tachibana Zuichō ; born January 7, 1890 in Kabayaki-chō (today: Naka-ku) , Nagoya ; † November 4, 1968 ) was a Japanese explorer of Central Asia and an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy . He took part in three expeditions to Central Asia between 1902 and 1910, all of which were financed by Count Ōtani . He traveled as a priest of the Buddhist Jōdo Shinshū school and was suspicious of the British and Russian secret services.

literature

• Hopkirk, Peter : Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia . The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 1980 ISBN 0-87023-435-8 .
• Hopkirk, Peter: The Silk Road. In search of lost treasure in Chinese Central Asia . rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-18564-4 .
• Sugiyama, Jiro: Central Asian Objects brought back by the Otani Mission. Tokyo National Museum 1971

Web links

• Japanese priest crosses desert to Tibet. Zuicho Tachibana in Central Asia and Tibet
• The Otani Explorations in Chinese Central Asia (IDP: Japanese Collections), engl.

See also

• Monuments of the People's Republic of China (Xinjiang)
• Loulan
• Wang Yuanlu

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