Seiichi Takimoto

Japanese: 滝本誠一 - たきもと・せいいち

Year of death: August 20, 1932
Year of birth: September 27, 4th year of Ansei (November 13, 1857)
A Meiji and Taisho period economic historian. In the early days of Japanese economic history, he proposed a unique theory of economic history based on the history of Japanese economic thought. He was born in the Uwajima clan residence in Ryudo-cho, Azabu, Edo. He studied English at Uwajima County Futsuki School in Ehime Prefecture under Nakagamigawa Hikojiro, who was dispatched from Keio Gijuku, and became an English teacher at Wakayama City Jishu School after becoming a graduate of Keio Gijuku. He became a reporter for the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, and then became interested in the research and application of economics. He studied Japanese economic thought since the Edo period, while also working in land reclamation and as an editor. In 1914 (Taisho 3), he became a professor at Doshisha University, and in 1916, he became a professor at Keio University, where he was in charge of Japanese economic history. He was a council member of the Society for Social and Economic History. He believed that "scholarship is a beggar's bag," and he continued his life's efforts to compile domestic and international economic materials and to place agricultural politicians such as Sato Nobuhiro in the history of Japanese economic thought and to introduce them to the world. <References> Nomura Kanetaro, "Dr. Takimoto Passes Away" (Social and Economic History, Vol. 2, No. 6)

(Atsushi Ikegami)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

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没年：昭和7.8.20(1932)
生年：安政4.9.27(1857.11.13)
明治大正期の経済史学者。日本経済史学の創成期において日本経済思想史を踏まえた独自の経済史学を提唱。江戸麻布竜土町の宇和島藩邸で生まれた。愛媛県宇和島郡立不棄学校で慶応義塾から派遣された中上川彦次郎などについて英学を学び,慶応義塾卒業生の資格を持って和歌山市自修学校の英語教員となる。『東京朝日新聞』の記者に転じ,さらに経済学の研究と応用に興味を持ち,江戸時代以来の日本の経済思想を研究しつつ,開墾事業,編集者などを体験。大正3(1914)年,同志社大学教授,9年慶応義塾大学教授となり日本経済史を担当。社会経済史学会評議員。「学問は乞食袋である」を信条とし内外の経済資料の集成と佐藤信淵ら農政家などを日本の経済思想史のなかに位置付けて世に出す努力を生涯継続した。<参考文献>野村兼太郎「滝本博士逝く」(『社会経済史学』2巻6号)

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