Ishikawa Kuraji

Japanese: 石川倉次 - いしかわくらじ

1859-1944 An educator from the Meiji to early Showa periods.
Born on January 26, 1858. After teaching at an elementary school, he became an assistant teacher at the Tokyo School for the Blind and Deaf in 1887. He adapted the six-dot Braille characters invented by France's Braille into the Japanese 50 sounds, which was adopted by the Braille Selection Committee in 1908. In 1901, it was published in the Official Gazette as Japanese Reading Braille for the Blind, and spread throughout the country. In 1907, he became a professor at the Higher Normal School. He passed away on December 23, 1944, at the age of 86. He was from Totomi (Shizuoka Prefecture) and graduated from Chiba Normal School.

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Japanese:

1859－1944　明治-昭和時代前期の教育者。
安政6年1月26日生まれ。小学校訓導をへて,明治20年東京盲唖学校助教諭。フランスのブライユ考案の6点点字を日本語の五十音に翻案し,23年点字選定会で採択される。34年官報に日本訓盲点字として掲載され,全国にひろまった。32年高等師範教授。昭和19年12月23日死去。86歳。遠江(とおとうみ)(静岡県)出身。千葉師範卒。

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