Umehara Sueji

Umehara Sueji ( Japanese 梅 原 末 治 ; * August 13, 1893 in Ōsaka , former Japanese Empire , now Japan ; † February 18, 1983 ) was a Japanese archaeologist whose main research focus was Chinese bronzes.

biography

Umehara Sueji graduated from Dōshisha General School ( 同志 社 普通 学校 , Dōshisha Futsū Gakkō ) in 1913 . He then studied from 1914 at the Imperial University of Kyoto .

He found a job as an assistant at the Archaeological Museum of the Imperial University of Kyoto. There he specialized in Asian bronzes and tombs from the Kofun period (approx. 300–710). Since 1921 he has been a member of the Committee for Researching Findings in the General Government of Korea ( 朝鮮 総 督府 古跡 調査 委 , Chōsen sōtoku-fu koseki chōsai ).

Umehara, who spoke good English, traveled to Europe and America in 1925-29 for study purposes. He became a member of the Academy for Oriental Culture (today: Kyōto University Research Institute of Humanistic Studies), and later an honorary member of the Imperial Anthropological Society.

At the Imperial University of Kyoto he was appointed assistant professor in 1933, the full professorship followed in July 1939. He held this position until his retirement in 1956. In 1962 he was awarded the Asahi Prize .

Fonts

Font directory

• Umehara Sueji chosaku mokuroku . 1956 (Japanese)

Selection of translations:

• Ancient sepulcher at Midzuo, Takashima-gun in the province of Omi . 1923 (with Hamada Kōsaku )
• Selection of the most beautiful finds from old graves . Kyoto, 1936
• Studies of Noin-Ula finds in North Mongolia . Tokyo, 1960
• L'étude sur le miroir antérieur à la dynasty of the “Han” . Kyoto, 1935

literature

• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Vol. VIII
• Berend Wispelwey (Ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1

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