Sansom, Sir George Bailey

Japanese: サンソム（英語表記）Sansom， Sir George Bailey

Born: November 28, 1883, London
[Died] March 8, 1965. Tucson, Arizona. British diplomat and Japanese history researcher. After studying in France and Germany, he joined the British Foreign Office in 1904, and was posted to Japan two years later, serving in Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Tokyo. He returned to Japan and served in the military during World War I, but served as Acting Commercial Attaché at the British Embassy in Japan from 1920 to 1924, and as Commercial Attaché from 1925 to 1940. He published an English translation of Tsurezuregusa (Essays on Idleness) (1911), An Historical Grammar of Japan (28), Japan; A Short Cultural History (31), and others. After World War II, he served as Minister to the United States and British representative to the Allied Far Eastern Commission. He later became Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University and Advising Professor at Stanford University. During this time he published The Western World and Japan (50) and A History of Japan (58-63). In 1935 he was knighted, in 1951 he was appointed visiting member of the Japan Academy, and in 1954 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from Columbia University.

Sansom
Sansom, William

Born: January 18, 1912, London
[Died] April 20, 1976, London. British novelist. Many of his works are full of detailed observations. In addition to novels such as The Body (1949), The Face of Innocence (51), and A Bed of Roses (54), he also wrote many short stories, and is considered one of the leading contemporary short story writers, alongside A. Wilson.

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Japanese:

[生]1883.11.28. ロンドン
[没]1965.3.8. アリゾナ，トゥーソン
イギリスの外交官，日本歴史研究家。フランス，ドイツに留学してのち，1904年イギリス外務省に勤め，2年後日本に赴任し，長崎，函館，東京に在勤。第1次世界大戦中は帰国して軍務に服したが，20～24年駐日イギリス大使館商務官代理，25～40年同商務官としてつとめた。『徒然草』の英訳 (1911) ，"An Historical Grammar of Japan" (28) ，『日本文化史』 Japan; A Short Cultural History (31) そのほかを発表。第2次世界大戦後，駐米公使，連合国極東委員会イギリス代表を歴任。のちコロンビア大学東亜研究所長，スタンフォード大学顧問教授となった。この間『西欧世界と日本』 The Western World and Japan (50) および『日本の歴史』A History of Japan (58～63) を刊行。 35年サーの騎士号を，51年日本学士院客員の地位を，54年コロンビア大学名誉法学博士号を与えられた。

サンソム
Sansom， William

[生]1912.1.18. ロンドン
[没]1976.4.20. ロンドン
イギリスの小説家。こまやかな観察に富んだ作品が多い。『肉体』 The Body (1949) ，『無邪気な顔』 The Face of Innocence (51) ，『ばらの花壇』A Bed of Roses (54) などの小説のほか，短編も多く，A.ウィルソンと並ぶ現代の代表的短編作家とされる。

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