Sakutaro Fujioka

Japanese: 藤岡作太郎 - ふじおか・さくたろう

Year of death: February 3, 1910 (Meiji 43)
Year of birth: 15 August 1870 (1870.8.19)
A Meiji period scholar of Japanese literature. His pen names were Toho, Rikatei, and Biwaen. He was born in Kanazawa. His father was a student and his mother was a soto. He graduated from the Japanese literature department of the Imperial University. After serving as a professor at Sanko, he became an assistant professor at Tokyo Imperial University in 1900. He also had a deep knowledge of painting, and in 1907 he was appointed as a judge for the Bunten exhibition. His research attitude, expressed in the first chapter of the general discussion of "Complete History of Japanese Literature/Heian Period Edition," written in 1903, is as follows: "If I were to leave the Meiji period with an open mind and become a person of the Heian period myself and look at that period, I would surely be close to getting the point across." His writings include "History of Japanese Customs and Manners" (1895, co-authored with Hiraide Kenjiro) and "History of Modern Painting" (1903).

(Yosuke Furutashima)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治43.2.3(1910)
生年：明治3.7.19(1870.8.15)
明治時代の国文学者。号は東圃,李花亭,枇杷園。金沢生まれ。父は通学,母はそと。帝国大学国文科卒。三高教授を経て,明治33(1900)年,東京帝大助教授。絵画にも造詣が深く,40年,文展の審査委員に任ぜられた。38年に著した『国文学全史/平安朝編』総論第1章にみえる「虚心平気,明治の社会を離れ,評者みずから平安朝の一人となりて,以てその時代を見る,蓋し正鵠を得るに近からん」という研究態度は,今日でも決して古びることのない正当性を有している。著書に『日本風俗史』(1895年平出鏗二郎と共著),『近世絵画史』(1903)。

(古田島洋介)

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