Sueji Umehara
| Prof. Sueji Umehara | |||||||||
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| Born | 1893 | ||||||||
| Died | 1983 | ||||||||
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227 Valley Road, Streatham, SW17 [A63] c/o Archaeological Dept, Kioto Imperial University, Kioto, Japan [1929] University of Kyoto, Japan [1949] | ||||||||
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archaeologist historian | ||||||||
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Umehara Sueji ( Japanese 梅 原 末 治 , born August 13, 1893 in Osaka , then Japan Empire , today Japan , † 18 February 1983 ) was a Japanese archaeologist whose research focus was Chinese bronzes.
Umehara Sueji graduated in 1913 the Doshisha General School ( 同志 社 普通 学校 , Dōshisha Futsū Gakkō ) from. He then studied from 1914 at the Imperial University of Kyoto .
He found employment as an assistant at the Archaeological Museum of the Imperial University of Kyoto. There he specialized in Asian bronzes and tombs of the Kofun period (about 300-710). Since 1921 he was a member of the Committee for the Research of Sites in the Government General of Korea ( 朝鮮 総 督府 古跡 委 委 , Chosen sotoku-fu koseki chosai ).
Umehara, who spoke English well, toured Europe and America for study purposes in 1925-29. He became a member of the Academy of Oriental Culture (now Kyoto University Research Institute of Humanistic Studies), and later became an honorary member of the Imperial Anthropological Society.
At the Imperial University of Kyoto he was appointed assistant professor in 1933, the full professorship followed in July 1939. This position he retained until his retirement in 1956. He was awarded the Asahi Prize in 1962.
Born 1893 in Osaka. Japanese archaeologist and historian of ancient cultures of the Far East. Professor at the University of Kyoto from 1939.
Umehara conducted excavations in Japan, China, and Korea. He has written works on the burial mounds of Noin-Ula, the primitive monuments of Tung Pei, and the excavations of the Yin capital at Anyang. Other works deal with the white painted pottery of Yin China, ancient Chinese jade, bronzes from the period of the “warring states” in China, ancient burial sites and ancient culture in Korea, and ancient burial sites and mounds in Japan.
Publications
External Publications
· Umehara Sueji chosaku mokuroku . 1956 (Japanese)
Selection of translations:
· Ancient sepulcher at Midzuo, Takashima-gun in the province of Omi . · 1923 (with · Hamada Kosaku )
· Selection of the most beautiful finds from ancient tombs . Kyoto, 1936
· Studies of Noin-Ula finds in North Mongolia . Tokyo, 1960
· L'étude sur le miroir antérieur à la dynasty of the "Han" . Kyoto, 1935
Umehara’s most important articles are published by theme in the collections An Anthology of Articles on the Archaeology of Japan (1940), An Anthology of Articles on the Archaeology of China (1944), and An Anthology of Articles on the Archaeology of Eastern Asia (1944).
