Naka Mitiyo ( Jap. 那 珂 通 世 , June 2, 1851 , Morioka ) February 3, 1908 , Tokyo - Japanese historian of the Meiji era , doctor of literature. He is considered the founder of oriental historical research in Japan.
| Naka Mitiyo | |
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| 那 珂 通 世 | |
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| Birth name | Fujimura Sojiro |
| Date of Birth | February 6, 1851 |
| Place of Birth | Mutsu Region, Morioka , Japan |
| Date of death | March 2, 1908 (aged 57) |
| Place of death | Tokyo , Japan Empire |
| A country |  Japan |
| Scientific field | History of Japan, Oriental Studies |
| Place of work | Tokyo University, Daiichi High School, Tokyo Higher Education School |
| Alma mater | Keio University (special courses) |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Literature |
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Biography
Born into the family of a member of the Morioka clan, Fujimur Moritoka, was his third son. His baby name is Sojiro. With great success, he graduated from the school for the children of the feudal lords, at the age of fourteen, at the request of Naka Mititaka, a Japanese Sinologist and punctuation teacher at this private school, he entered his family as an adopted son. Having become close to the founder of the private school, Nambu Toshiyuki, the adoptive father changed his surname to Naka, as a result of which his son was now called Naka Mitiyo. After the defeat of the Tokugawa clan in the Bosin war, the family received an estate in the principality of Fukui.
After the Restoration, Meiji became a student of Yukichi Fukuzawa , and in 1872 he entered courses at Keio Private School. In 1876, at the age of twenty-six, he published his work, "An Analysis of Ancient Japanese Symbols," in the journal Yo-yo Shyadan. After finishing Keio’s courses, on the recommendation of Fukuzawa, Yukichi served as a teacher in teacher training and secondary schools, then worked as the director of a teacher’s school in Chiba and a female teacher’s school in Tokyo, and contributed to female education. Since 1900, he became an official of the fifth senior level, became a professor at Daiichi High School and Tokyo Higher Pedagogical School, and since 1896 he has been a teacher at the Institute of Literature at the University of Tokyo. At the same time, he published many empirical studies on the history of Japan, Korea, and China.
In 1901 he received a doctorate in literature. A representative scientific work is “The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Times” (1888-1890, the work was never completed, but because of its simplicity and objectivity, this publication was also read in China. Publisher - Ivanami Bunko, 3 volumes). In 1897, the work “Thoughts on the Periodization of Antiquity” was published, in which the periodization of Japanese history was studied on the basis of the work “A Look at the Revolution of the Xingyu Year” (published in the Historical Scientific Journal, with a comment by Nishin Sh Сei). Efforts were made to establish the dates of accession to the throne of Emperor Jimmu, with which Japan began to be considered an empire. Also, under the name "True notes about Genghis Khan", Naka first translated into Japanese the "Secret Legend of the Mongols."
In 1902, he was appointed a member of the committee for the study of the state language, and also taught geography at the Buddhist University of Jodoshu. In 1905-1906 he visited the Qing Empire, Manchuria, Korea. He was engaged in research in such vast areas as linguistics, literature, history, geography, law, economics, industry, society, statistics. In addition, he studied the Manchu and Mongolian languages. Having become the founder of Japanese oriental studies, a great authority in the field of studies on Mongolian history, he also deeply influenced the system of Japanese chronology.
In 1908, died of a heart attack. [1] . At that time, he was an officer of the junior fourth rank.
Naka Mitiyo was close to Nanto Conan, both of them came from the Morioka clan, and was also a school teacher of Shiratori Kurakichi . Also, uncle was Fujimura Misao, a student who committed suicide at Kegon Waterfall in Nikko (Tochigi Prefecture) and left behind a famous farewell poem .
Rewards
- 1891 - junior sixth court rank [2]
- 1898 - senior sixth court rank [3]
- 1901 - Order of the Sacred Treasure of the V degree [4]
- 1908 - Junior Fourth Court Rank, Order of the Sacred Treasure, IV Degree [5]
Biographical materials
- Kubodera, Koichi - “How Oriental Studies Started. Naka Mitiyo and His Era” (2009, Haybonsya), critical biography
- Collection of the memory of the late Naka Mitiyo "Naka Mitiyo, Doctor of Literature" (1915, Dainippon)
Proceedings
- "Posthumous Collected Works of Tsui Shu" - co-authored with Tsui Shu
- "Posthumous Collected Works of Naka Mitiyo"
- "Travel bag. Thoughts on the fate of the motherland"
- "The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Time," Volume 1
- "The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Time," Volume 2
- "The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Time," Volume 3, Chapters 1-3
- "The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Time," Volume 3, Chapters 4-9
- "The History of China from Ancient Times to Our Time," Volume 4
- "Yuan Shi. Translation and Commentary"
- "New Historical Atlas of East Asia"
- "True notes about Genghis Khan"
- "Naka. Essays on the History of East Asia"
Footnotes
- ↑ 服 部 敏 良 『事 典 有 名人 の 死亡 診断 近代 編』 付 録 「近代 有 名人 の 死因 一 覧」 （吉川弘 文 館 、 2010 年） 20 頁
- ↑ 『官 報』 第 2534 号 「叙 任 及 辞 令」 1891 年 12 月 9 日。
- ↑ 『官 報』 第 4421 号 「叙 任 及 辞 令」 1898 年 3 月 31 日。
- ↑ 『官 報』 第 5548 号 「叙 任 及 辞 令」 1901 年 12 月 28 日。
- ↑ 『官 報』 第 7403 号 「叙 任 及 辞 令」 1908 年 3 月 4 日。