Takeshi Kuraishi - Takeshi Kuraishi

Japanese: 倉石武四郎 - くらいしたけしろう

Born: September 21, 1897, Takada
Died November 14, 1975. Tokyo Chinese language scholar. After attending First High School, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at the University of Tokyo in 1921. Not satisfied with his studies at the University of Tokyo, he went on to Kyoto University Graduate School and studied under Kano Naoki. In 1926, he became an assistant professor at Kyoto University. He studied in China from 1928 to 1930. He became a professor at Kyoto University in 1939, a professor at the University of Tokyo in 1949, and a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo in 1958. He was a Doctor of Literature. He was consistently devoted to Chinese language education, presided over the Kuraishi Chinese Language Course himself, and served as the president of the Japan-China Academy until his death. In 1946, he also founded the Chinese Language Studies Society (now the Chinese Language Society) and published the journal Chinese Language Studies. He was one of the earliest proponents of abandoning the old "classical Chinese" method and studying and researching classical Chinese as a foreign language, and he put this into practice despite much opposition and disapproval at the time. He also had plans to create many dictionaries for modern and classical languages, but he only completed the modern Chinese dictionary "Iwanami Chinese Dictionary" (1963) and gave up halfway through the Japanese-Chinese dictionary. His books include "Theory and Practice of Chinese Language Education" (41), "The Fate of Chinese Characters" (52), and "Fifty Years of Chinese Language" (73).

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Japanese:

[生]1897.9.21. 高田
[没]1975.11.14. 東京
中国語学者。第一高等学校を経て，1921年東京大学支那文学科卒業。東大での学問にあきたらず，京都大学大学院に進み，狩野直喜に師事。 26年京大助教授。 28～30年中国留学。 39年京大教授，49年東大教授，58年東大名誉教授。文学博士。一貫して中国語教育に専心，みずから倉石中国語講座を主宰，没するまで日中学院院長をつとめ，また 46年中国語学研究会 (現中国語学会) を結成，機関誌『中国語学』を出した。古い「漢文」的方法を捨て，中国古典を外国語として学習，研究するという方法をいちはやく提唱し，当時の多くの反対や白眼視を乗越えて実践した。またそのための，現代語から古典語にわたる多くの辞書づくりの構想をもっていたが，現代語の『岩波中国語辞典』 (1963) を完成しただけで，日中辞典の業なかばで倒れた。著書『支那語教育の理論と実際』 (41) ，『漢字の運命』 (52) ，『中国語五十年』 (73) など。

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