Takataro Kimura

Japanese: 木村鷹太郎 - きむら・たかたろう

Year of death: July 18, 1931
Year of birth: September 18, 1870 (October 12, 1870)
A thinker and translator from the Meiji and Taisho periods. His pen name was Narushio. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at the Imperial University. He began his research into Chinese ethics under the tutelage of Inoue Tetsujiro, but in 1897 (Meiji 30), seeking an ideology worthy of personal investment rather than objectivity, he founded the magazine Nihonshugi (Japanese Theory) with Inoue and others, rejecting Buddhism and other ideas and advocating the full blossoming of the "spirit of the founding of Japan." From 1901 onwards, he devoted himself to the study of Romantic literature and Greek classics. His famous works include Byron's Literary World's Great Demon King (1902) and The Complete Works of Plato, which gained enthusiastic readers. Through this research, Nihonshugi developed into a bizarre theory that sees ancient Japan as the origin of world history. From 1901 to 1902, he published An Ancient History of Japan Based on Worldwide Research, a grand comparative study from that perspective.

(Tokumori Makoto)

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Japanese:

没年：昭和6.7.18(1931)
生年：明治3.9.18(1870.10.12)
明治大正時代の思想家,翻訳家。号鳴潮。帝国大学哲学選科修了。井上哲次郎門下で中国倫理学の研究から出発したが,客観性よりも自己投入するに足る思想を求めて明治30(1897)年井上らと共に雑誌『日本主義』を創刊,仏教などを排撃し「日本建国の精神」の全面開花を提唱する。34年以後はロマン派文学とギリシャ古典研究に没頭。熱狂的読者を得た『バイロン文界之大魔王』(1902),『プラトーン全集』(翻訳)は著名。その日本主義はこの研究を通じて,古代日本を世界史の根源とする怪異な学説へと化した。44～45年『世界的研究に基づける日本太古史』はその観点からの壮大な比較研究。

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