"Study of the Ainu epic poem Yukar" - Research from the Ainu epic poem Yukar

...He began studying the Ainu language while he was a university student, and often made fieldwork in Hokkaido and Sakhalin (Karafuto), or invited Ainu people to his home to record and study their oral literary works, and to conduct linguistic research on the language. In 1932, he received the Imperial Prize from the Imperial Academy for his representative work, "A Study of the Ainu Epic Poem Yukar." He has also written many books and papers on linguistics and Japanese language studies, and after World War II, he contributed to the reform of the Japanese language and Japanese characters. ...

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…大学在学の当時からアイヌ語の研究を始め，しばしば北海道，サハリン(樺太)に実地踏査し，あるいはアイヌ人を自宅に招いて，口承文学作品の筆録と研究につとめ，その言語の言語学的研究を行った。その代表作《アイヌ叙事詩ユーカラの研究》により1932年帝国学士院から恩賜賞を受けた。言語学･国語学に関する著書や論文も多く，第2次世界大戦後は国語･国字改革にもつくした。…

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