Tsuji Hikaru

Tsuji Hikaru ( Japanese 辻 瑆 ; * 1923 ) is a Japanese German studies specialist. His father was the Yōga painter Tsuji Hisashi ( 辻 永 , 1884–1974), his older brother the Romanist Tsuji Tōru ( 辻 昶 , 1916–2000).

Tsuji studied at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Tokyo . There he was appointed assistant in the German seminar in 1948. In 1954 he was appointed associate professor for German language and literature, and in 1970 he was appointed full professor. In 1983 he moved to Hōsō University as a professor of German studies .

His research deals with the work of Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse as well as cultural comparisons between Japan and Germany. He translated Goethe , Fontane , Hesse, Hofmannsthal , Huch and Zweig into Japanese.

He is the founder of the Japan Center at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the mid-1990s, he took care of the reorganization of Japanese Studies at the University of Leipzig and was its acting head in the 1995/96 winter semester.

The University of Munich made him its honorary senator .

Works

• Hikaru Tsuji: カ フ カ の 世界 ( Kafuka no sekai , Kafka and his world), Arechi Verlag, Tokyo, 1971
• Hikaru Tsuji: German Studies in Japan , Niemeyer, 1978
• Kenichi Mishima; Hikaru Tsuji (ed.): Documentation of the symposium “Intercultural German Studies. Methods, possibilities and models ”in Takayama / Japan, 1990 , iudicium, 1992, ISBN 978-3-89129-392-8 .

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• Thomas Berberich, Jan Clauss (ed.): Understanding for understanding. Science policy and international scientific cooperation . Festschrift for Heinrich Pfeiffer. Springer, 1987, ISBN 978-3-642-71616-4 , short biographies of the authors, p. 210-211 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-71615-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Kluge: History. In: Japanologie Leipzig. October 25, 1997, accessed January 26, 2020 . 

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