Yoshikawa Kojiro

Japanese: 吉川幸次郎 - よしかわこうじろう

Born: March 18, 1904 in Kobe
Died: April 8, 1980. A scholar of Chinese literature in Kyoto. After graduating from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University in 1926, he studied in China from 1928 to 1931. He received his doctorate in 1947 for his work Genzaju Kenkyu (Research on Genzaju), and became a professor at Kyoto University in the same year. Under the guidance of Kano Naoki and Suzuki Torao, he inherited the orthodox tradition of Kyoto Chinese studies and established a new academic style known as Yoshikawa studies. He is a leading researcher in Chinese literature in recent years. Based on the results of Qing dynasty historical research, his basic research approach is to re-experience as accurately as possible the meaning of the Chinese classics as "words," and his subjects cover a wide range of fields from ancient times to the present. He also worked to popularize Chinese literature to the general public by supervising and writing Selected Chinese Poets and Selected Chinese Classics. His many works, including "Annotations on Du Fu's Poems," "Selections of New Tang Poems" (52, 54), and "Classics and Their Lives in the Chinese" (64), are all collected in the "Complete Works of Yoshikawa Kojiro" (vol. 24, 73-76). In 1984, he became a member of the Academy of Arts. In 1987, he became a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. In 1989, he was awarded the title of Person of Cultural Merit.

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[生]1904.3.18. 神戸
[没]1980.4.8. 京都
中国文学者。第三高等学校を経て，1926年京都大学文学部卒業。 28～31年中国留学。 47年『元雑劇研究』 (1948) で学位を得，同年京大教授。狩野直喜，鈴木虎雄らの指導を受け，京都中国学の正統を継ぐとともに，吉川学とも呼ばれる新しい学風を樹立した。近年の中国文学研究の第一人者。清朝考証学の成果をふまえ，中国古典の「言葉」としての意味を可能なかぎり正確に再体験することを研究の基本姿勢とし，その対象は古代から現代まであらゆる領域にわたっている。また『中国詩人選集』『中国古典選』などの監修，執筆にあたり，中国文学の一般への普及にも努めた。『杜甫詩注』をはじめ，『新唐詩選』 (52，54) ，『支那人の古典とその生活』 (64) など数多い著作はすべて『吉川幸次郎全集』 (24巻，73～76) に所収。 64年芸術院会員。 67年京大名誉教授。 69年文化功労者。

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