Ginzo Uchida

Japanese: 内田銀蔵 - うちだ・ぎんぞう

Year of death: July 20, 1919
Year of birth: January 25, 1872 (March 4, 1872)
Historian of the Meiji and Taisho periods. Doctor of Literature. Born into a river fish wholesaler in Nakagumi, Senju-cho, Minami-Adachi-gun, Tokyo Prefecture. Graduated from Imperial University in 1896. Became a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of the Imperial University in 1909 and studied abroad in Europe. Became a professor at Kyoto Imperial University in 1916, where he participated in the establishment of the History Department and made efforts to set up the National History Course and research lab, and then participated in the management of the History Research Society and the library. Aiming to break away from the historical research of Tokyo Imperial University, he opened up new ground in historical theory and historical philosophy, and established early modern Japanese history as a field of study. His academic style was strong, and he was particularly skilled in Japanese economic history, providing an overview of the land system and the transition of economic development from a global historical perspective, which had the potential to develop into cultural history. In 1918, he went on a business trip to the United States and Europe, and died shortly after returning to Japan. He was a strict, sincere, cautious, refined, and strict person who strived for self-cultivation and was of high integrity. His grave is at Seiryoji Temple in Ayase, Adachi Ward, Tokyo. <Works> "Complete Works of Ginzo Uchida," "Early Modern Japan" and "History of Early Modern Japan," edited and annotated by Michio Miyazaki. <References> "50 Years of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University"

(Nobuhide Akimoto)

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Japanese:

没年：大正8.7.20(1919)
生年：明治5.1.25(1872.3.4)
明治大正期の歴史家。文学博士。東京府南足立郡千住町字中組の川魚問屋に生まれた。明治29(1896)年,帝国大学卒業。32年,帝大文科大学講師になり,欧州に留学。39年,京都帝国大学教授となり,史学科の創設に参画して,国史学講座と研究室の整備に尽力し,次いで史学研究会と図書館の経営に参加した。東京帝大の考証史学からの脱皮を志向し,史学理論,歴史哲学に新境地をひらいて,日本近世史学をひとつの分野として確立した。学風は骨太で,特に日本経済史を得意とし,土地制度や経済発展の推移を世界史的視野で概観するもので,文化史学へ発展する可能性を持っていた。大正7(1918)年米欧に出張し,帰国してまもなく没した。人となりは,謹厳,篤実,慎重,端正,修養に努め,高潔であった。墓所は,東京都足立区綾瀬の清亮寺。<著作>『内田銀蔵遺稿全集』,宮崎道生校注・解説『近世の日本・日本近世史』<参考文献>『京都大学文学部50年史』

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