Haga Yaichi

Scholar of Japanese literature. Born in Fukui, Echizen on May 14, 1867. His father, Masaki (1841-1906), was a scholar of Japanese literature. Graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the Imperial University in 1892 (Meiji 25). After serving as a professor at the First Higher School and the Higher Normal School (now Tsukuba University), he became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters (now the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo) in 1898. From 1900 (Meiji 33), he studied in Germany for two years, studying philology at the University of Berlin, and returned to Japan as a professor. In 1918 (Taisho 7), he also became president of Kokugakuin University, and resigned from the University of Tokyo in 1922. He died on February 6, 1927. He devoted himself to the establishment of "national literature," and while still a university student he pursued its academic basis and scope in "National Literature Reader" (1890), explained its historical development in "Ten Lectures on the History of National Literature" (1899), and also compared the methods of German philology and national studies. In addition to nurturing many successors, his love of his country extended to issues of the national language, national language education, and national education, and he wrote "Ten Essays on National Character" (1907) and "Moon and Snow Flowers" (1909), which described the characteristics of the national character, as well as editing dictionaries and textbooks.

[Tosaku Furuta October 19, 2018]

"Haga Yaichi Collected Works" edited by Haga Dan (1937, Tomiyama Publishing)

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国文学者。慶応(けいおう)3年5月14日越前(えちぜん)福井に生まれる。父真咲(まさき)（1841―1906）は国学者。1892年（明治25）帝国大学文科大学国文学科卒業。第一高等学校教授兼高等師範学校（現、筑波(つくば)大学）教授を経て、1898年文科大学（現、東京大学文学部）助教授。1900年（明治33）から2年間ドイツへ留学、ベルリン大学で文献学を研究し、帰国後、教授。1918年（大正7）国学院大学長を兼ね、1922年東大を辞任。昭和2年2月6日没。「国文学」の樹立に力を注ぎ、大学在学中の『国文学読本』（1890）でその学的根拠と範囲を追究し、『国文学史十講』（1899）でその史的展開を説き、別にドイツ文献学と国学の方法の比較も行った。多くの後進を育成したほか、その国家愛は国語問題、国語教育、国民教育にも及び、国民性の特色を述べた『国民性十論』（1907）、『月雪花』（1909）の著作、辞書や教科書などの編集もある。

［古田東朔　2018年10月19日］

『芳賀檀編『芳賀矢一文集』（1937・冨山房）』

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