Brief introduction of Tsuda Zuoyousi's life

Tsuda Zuoyousi (つだそぅきち) is a famous oriental historian in Daisho and Showa era in Japan, one of the earliest important scholars of Tokyo Literature School, doctor of literature, honorary professor of Waseda University and winner of Japanese Cultural Medal. His real name is Tsuda Qinwen (つだちかふみ), 1873, 10, born in Tuchi, Xiamitian Village, Jiamao County, Gifu Prefecture, Japan (now Jiamao City, Mino). When I was a child, I studied Chinese with my father. When I was in primary school, I studied Chinese with Mori Haozhai, a descendant of the Japanese Zhuzi research master Yamazaki Gezhai. Tsuda thus laid a good foundation for Sinology. After dropping out of Nagoya private middle school for a few years, I went to Tokyo and entered the political department of Tokyo Special School (the predecessor of Waseda University). 189 1 graduated.

Under the introduction of his patron, Liu Ze Masataro, he became a disciple of Bai Niao Cangji, learned English lectures on western history written by Bai Niao's teacher, Reese, and helped Bai Niao edit western history textbooks. At the same time, he worked as a history teacher in Chiba Middle School and Duxie Middle School. /kloc-entered Manchuria Railway in 0/908, and established the historical geography research office of Manchu in Bai Niao as a researcher. He is responsible for the basic research of "Korean historical geography" and has also studied the history of Japanese thought. In the research work of Investigation Room, he was deeply influenced by Bai Niao Cangji's western literary criticism and positivism, which became the starting point of his knowledge research. 19 13 published Historical Geography of Korea and New Research on the History of Gods, and later published representative works such as Research on National Thought in Literature, Historical Records and New Research on Japanese Secretaries.

19 18, lecturer at waseda university, 1920 professor. He was originally a student of early history, teaching oriental history, and later transferred to early philosophy to teach oriental philosophy. Before and after this, Tsuda successively published papers such as Examination of Bohai Sea, Management of Liao Zhiliao East and Examination of Northern Jin, and published a large number of research papers on Japanese national thoughts in various academic magazines, which were later included in four volumes (1916 ~1926543). 19 13 wrote a new study on the history of gods, and on this basis, wrote 1924. Both books take the history of gods before Emperor Jimmu as the research object, and launch Tsuda's historical criticism and "the theory of obliterating the history of gods". Later, he left Tokyo for Hiraizumi because of the Tsuda incident. After the war, he returned to Tokyo and was elected as a member of Imperial College (renamed Japan College in the same year) in 1947. 1949 won the medal of Japanese culture. 1960 was elected as the first honorary citizen of Jiamao City, Mino. 196 1 year 65438+February 4th, died at the age of 88.