Shogoro Tsuboi
| Prof. Shogoro Tsuboi | |||||||||
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| Born | 1863 | ||||||||
| Died | 1913 | ||||||||
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4 Richmond Terrace, Clapham Road, SW [1891] Science Collage, Imperial Institute, Tokyo [1899] Science College, Imperial University, Tokyo [1902] | ||||||||
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academic anthropologist archaeologist | ||||||||
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1891.10.27 proposed
1900.04.24 elected as Local Correspondent
1904.03.08 the following gentlemen, having been duly proposed & seconded, were appointed Local Correspondents of the Institute for five years, the appointments to lapse at the Annual Meeting of 1909: ... Prof. Tsuboi – Tokyo ...
1905.12.05 Honorary Fellows. The following names, suggested for election as Honorary Fellows, were referred for discussion at the next meeting: Prof. Nieuwenhuis, Prof. Pigorini, Prof. Starr, Prof. von den Steinen, and Prof. Tsuboi.
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Shogoro Tsuboi, was professor o f anthropology in the Imperial University of Tokyo
Tsuboi Shôgorô is considered one of the founders or fathers of anthropology and archaeology in Japan.
Born in Edo in 1863 the son of Tsuboi Shinryô, Shôgorô went on to attend Tokyo Imperial University; he was one of three men from the university who made the very first discovery of Yayoi period materials in 1884, just outside the campus.[1] Tsuboi graduated from the Imperial University in 1886, and founded the Tokyo Anthropological Society that same year. After studying abroad for a time in England and France, he become a professor at his alma mater in 1892.
Among his many works of scholarship, Tsuboi proposed and advocated for the theory that the first indigenous people to occupy the Japanese islands were a people who appear in Ainu legends as the korpokkur. His so-called "korpokkur theory" was hotly debated by others of the time.
In 1903, he played a key role in organizing the "Pavilion of Mankind" (Jinruikan) at the Fifth Domestic Exposition in Osaka. This pavilion is infamous today as a classic example of the "human zoo," commonly practiced by many colonial powers at that time, and seen also at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; at Tsuboi's pavilion at Osaka, Ainu and Taiwanese aborigines were put on display, in mock recreations of their traditional clothing and homes, to be seen by visitors to the expo. Okinawans famously refused to be put on display, and somehow were permitted to exempt themselves.
Tsuboi died in 1913 in St. Petersburg.
One of the earliest Japanese anthropologists. See JAI 27 (1898): 383. Born in Edo, after a degree in geology at Tokyo, he studied ethnology in France and UK from 1889 to 1892, then introduced ethnology course at the University of Tokyo in 1893
Also in the Meiji Era, a lecture was given by Professor Shogoro Tsuboi of Tokyo Imperial University, who was a pioneer in archaeology and anthropology. Professor Tsuboi was well known for discovering Yayoi-period pottery in Yayoi-cho, Hongo, Tokyo, as well as for performing the first academic dig at kofun burial mounds in Japan. Furthermore, a record of the lectures was published in 1907 (the 40th year of the Meiji Era) as "Discussions in Anthropology" (Waseda Popular Lecture Series, Volume 11).
Publications
External Publications
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon
Korobokkuru fuzokuko (Japanese Edition) Kindle Edition
by Shogoro Tsuboi (Author)
Korobokkuru hokkaido ni sumishinarubeshi (Japanese Edition) Kindle Edition
by Shogoro Tsuboi (Author)
Sekki jidai soron yoryo (Japanese Edition) Kindle Edition
by Shogoro Tsuboi (Author)
