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Yamamoto Tatsurō
Born(1910-06-16)June 16, 1910
Tokyo, Japan
DiedJanuary 24, 2001(2001-01-24) (aged 90)
TitleJunior Fifth Rank, Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette[1]
SpouseSumiko Yamamoto (1914–1997)[a]
Academic background
EducationDoctor of Literature (1951, University of Tokyo)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo
International Christian University
Tōyō Bunko
Main interests
Oriental history (Southeast Asian history, Indian history)

Yamamoto Tatsurō (June 16, 1910 – January 24, 2001) was a Japanese historian of Oriental history. He served as a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and was a recipient of the Order of Culture. He is known as the person who proposed the Japanese era name "Heisei". His wife was Sumiko (壽美子),[2] the second daughter of Kunizo Hara.

Biography

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Born in Tokyo. His biological father was Shinichiro Matsumura, who served as a member of the House of Peers. He was adopted by his grandfather, Baron Tatsuo Yamamoto—who served as the 5th governor of the Bank of Japan, Minister of Finance, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and Minister of Home Affairs—and succeeded as the head of the family.[3] In his early childhood, he attended Gyokusei Kindergarten, which promoted new early childhood education and was founded by Bella Irwin,[b][4] and became part of its second graduating class.[c]

After graduating from the Department of Oriental Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University in 1933, he served as a researcher at the Academy of Oriental Culture,[6] and gained attention with his 1934 paper, "Zheng He's Western Expeditions."[d][10] After serving as a lecturer at Tokyo High School, he became an assistant professor at Tokyo Imperial University in 1942. In April 1949, he was promoted to Professor of the Department of Oriental History (Southern History Course) at the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. In November of the same year, he received the Mainichi Academic Encouragement Grant and went to study at Harvard University.[11] In 1951, he obtained his Doctor of Literature degree from the University of Tokyo.[12][13] In 1952, he won the Japan Academy Prize for his work Study of Annamese History.[14] From 1953, he served as a councilor and director of the Tōyō Bunko,[15] during which he launched the Modern China Research Committee of the library (now the Tōyō Bunko Modern China Research Group).[16] He served as the department head at the University of Tokyo for a long time and retired in 1971. Following his retirement, he served as a professor at International Christian University[e] and as a visiting professor at Yale University[10] and Cornell University.[10] He was a member of the Japan Academy.

His specialties were Southeast Asian history and Indian history. He organized the Southern History Research Group (the predecessor to the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies[f]). He died of heart failure in 2001.[23] According to his wishes, his book collection was added to the Tōyō Bunko (excluding those destroyed during World War II).[24][25][26][27]

From the final years of the Showa era, he had been commissioned by the Government of Japan to consider a "new era name" anticipating the passing of Emperor Showa. The name "Heisei" proposed by Yamamoto officially became the new era name following the enthronement of Crown Prince Akihito on January 7, 1989.[28] However, Yamamoto himself never disclosed the fact that he was the proposer of 'Heisei' until his death.[29]

Authored and co-authored books

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  • 印度支那諸民族に関する民族学的研究の現状 (Current Status of Ethnological Research on the Peoples of Indochina). Imperial Academy, 1942.
  • 世界史概観 (Overview of World History). Edited by the Historical Society of the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo: Co-authored with Kentaro Murakawa and Kentaro Hayashi. Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1949.
    • Reprint Edition: Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2019. ISBN 978-4634641662.
  • 安南史研究 (Study of Annamese History) (in Japanese), Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1950, NCID BN10437827
  • 世界史 (World History). Co-authored with Kentaro Murakawa, Namio Egami, and Kentaro Hayashi. Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1952. Retitled Detailed World History from 1964.
  • 歴史の見方 (How to Look at History). Sanseido <Social Studies History Library>, 1957.
  • デリー：デリー諸王朝時代の建造物の研究 (Delhi: Architectural Remains of the Delhi Sultanate Period) <3 Volumes>. Edited by the University of Tokyo Indian Historical Site Investigation Team: Co-authored with Matsuo Ara and Tokifusa Tsukinowa. Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo.
  • Osamu Yamaguchi, Yamamoto Tatsurō, Kinji Hidemura, Yasushi Inoue (1968). 東洋の専制帝国 : 明と清 (Oriental Despotic Empires: Ming and Qing). World History (in Japanese). Shueisha. ndldm:2973577 NCID BN09392685.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kentaro Murakawa, Namio Egami, Yamamoto Tatsurō, Kentaro Hayashi (1977). Essential World History 要説世界史 (in Japanese) (Revised ed.). Yamakawa Shuppansha. NCID BA65486309 CRID 1130000794781071232.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Edited books

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Book reviews

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Honorary positions

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  • Tōyō Bunko Modern China Research Committee
  • 1953: Tōyō Bunko Councilor.[15]
  • 1966: First President of the Japan Society for Southeast Asian History.[33][h]
  • 1975: President of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH).[35]

Awards

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The following is based on "Yamamoto Tatsurō" in the 20th Century Japanese Biographical Dictionary.

Festschriften

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  • 東洋史論叢 (Collection of Essays on Oriental History). Compiled by the Dr. Yamamoto 60th Birthday Commemorative Collection of Essays on Oriental History Compilation Committee. Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1972.
  • 東南アジア・インドの社会と文化 (Society and Culture in Southeast Asia and India). Compiled by the Dr. Yamamoto Tatsurō 70th Birthday Commemorative Collection Editing Committee. Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1980.

See also

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Footnotes

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Author of Research on the History of Chinese Christianity
  2. ↑ The founder of Gyokusei Kindergarten was the eldest daughter of Robert W. Irwin.
  3. ↑ He attended the kindergarten's 50th-anniversary celebration in 1966 and reminisced about his feelings toward Bella Irwin.[5]
  4. ↑ "Zheng He's Western Expeditions" (Part 1)[7] and (Part 2).[8][9]
  5. ↑ KAKENHI Research "Study of Cultural Friction in East Asia and Southeast Asia - Creation of a Contemporary History Chronology of Southeast Asia" 1977,[17] 1978,[18] and 1979.[19]
  6. ↑ The Southern History Research Group is one of the foundational bodies of the current Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies.[20][21][22]
  7. ↑ Author: Gordon H. Luce Old Burma - early Pagán. New York: Augustin Locust Valley, 1969-1970, English. Published in Artibus Asiae (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).[32] OCLC 563610846.
    • Vol 1: 1. Text. - 1969. - XVIII, 422 S, 1969.
    • Vol 2: 2, Catalogue of plates, indexes, 1970.
    • Vol 3: 3. Plates. - 1970. - 455 S, 1970.
  8. ↑ The Southern History Research Group, established by Yamamoto Tatsurō, became the foundational body of the Japan Society for Southeast Asian History founded in 1966.[20][22] Renamed to the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies in 2006.[34]

References

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  1. ↑ 官報検索! 平成13年 2001年11月2日付 官報 本紙 第3234号 13頁 (Official Gazette Search! Heisei 13, November 2, 2001, Official Gazette Main Issue No. 3234, p. 13) (in Japanese). Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  2. ↑ 原邦造 (第8版 昭和3(1928)年7月の情報) (in Japanese). 『人事興信録』データベース 名古屋大学大学院法学研究科 (Jinji Koshinroku Database, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University). Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  3. ↑ National Diet Library Reference and Bibliography Department, ed. (1983). 牧野伸顕関係文書目録 (Nobuaki Makino Related Documents Catalog). 憲政資料目録 (Constitutional History Materials Catalog) (in Japanese). Vol. 14. National Diet Library. pp. 149, 636. "Yamamoto Tatsurō Letters 149" "636, Yamamoto Tatsurō §1 January 1948 Father Tatsuo's Death Condolence Thanks".
  4. ↑ Irwin, Yukiko. フランクリンの果実 (Fruits of Franklin). Bungeishunju, 1988, p. 46. ISBN 4163422307, CRID 1130000796660051712 .
  5. ↑ Sadako Shimada (2018). ソフィア・アラベラ・アルウィンの幼児教育思想について(1)～日系二世女性が幼稚園創設に至った教育思想の一考察～ (On the Early Childhood Education Philosophy of Sophia Arabella Irwin (1)). 秋草学園短期大学紀要 (The Bulletin of Akikusa Gakuen Junior College) (in Japanese). 34: 125–148. ISSN 0910-9374.
  6. ↑ Minoru Senda (July 2009). 華族総覧 (Comprehensive Overview of the Kazoku) (in Japanese). Kodansha Gendai Shinsho. p. 507. ISBN 978-4-06-288001-5.
  7. ↑ "Zheng He's Western Expeditions" (Part 1) Toyo Gakuho, Vol. 21, No. 3, April 1934, pp. 374–404.
  8. ↑ "Zheng He's Western Expeditions" (Part 2) Toyo Gakuho, Vol. 21, No. 4, September 1934, pp. 506–556.
  9. ↑ Yasuhiro Kawagoe (2015). 明代護陵衛考―とくに長陵衛・献陵衛とその軍事活動を中心に― (A Study on the Imperial Mausoleum Guards in the Ming Dynasty). 人文研紀要 (Bulletin of the Institute of Humanities) (in Japanese). 82. Chuo University Institute of Humanities: 61–94. ISSN 0287-3877. CRID 1050001202724884992.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Nichigai Associates (ed.). 山本 達郎とは (Who is Yamamoto Tatsurō). Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved November 25, 2022. 20th Century Japanese Biographical Dictionary So-Wa (Nichigai Associates / Kinokuniya, 2004), 367 Days Birthday Encyclopedia (Nichigai Associates, 2007)
  11. ↑ 大衆人事録 (Popular Biographical Dictionary) (in Japanese) (22nd Edition, Tokyo Volume ed.). Teikoku Himitsu Tanteisha. 1962. p. 840. ndldm:3010647/430.
  12. ↑ Yamamoto Tatsurō (1951). 元明両朝の安南征路 (The Annam Expeditions of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties) (Doctor of Literature, Report Number Unknown). Vol. University of Tokyo. CRID 1110282785254157568.
  13. ↑ Nobuhiro Matsumoto (1950). 山本達郎著「安南史研究- -元明両朝の安南征略」 (Yamamoto Tatsurō's "Study of Annamese History: The Annam Expeditions of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties"). Shigaku Zasshi (in Japanese). 59 (10). Yamakawa Shuppansha: 69–72. ISSN 0018-2478. CRID 1520009408968418944.
  14. 1 2 Japan Academy "42nd (May 12, 1952) Japan Academy Prize, Doctor of Literature Yamamoto Tatsurō" Study of Annamese History [PDF:99KB].
  15. 1 2 一般研究(A)「東洋史」（財）東洋文庫、研究代表者：山本 達郎（東洋文庫, 研究部, 研究員）、1991年度 - 1992年度、完了 (General Research (A) "Oriental History" Tōyō Bunko, Principal Investigator: Yamamoto Tatsurō (Tōyō Bunko, Research Dept., Researcher), FY1991 - FY1992, Completed). kaken.nii.ac.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved November 24, 2022. Researchers included Representative Yamamoto, Minoru Hara, Setsuho Ikehata, Matsuo Ara, Yoneo Ishii, and Genichi Yamazaki.
  16. ↑ Focusing on the development of Southeast Asian-related materials: Yamamoto Tatsurō (1910-2001) Tōyō Bunko
  17. ↑ Yamamoto Tatsurō (International Christian University) (1977). 東アジア及び東南アジア地域における文化摩擦の研究-東南アジア現代史年表の作成（特定研究）(Study of Cultural Friction in East Asia and Southeast Asia - Creation of a Contemporary History Chronology of Southeast Asia (Specific Research)) (in Japanese). CRID 1040282257356590336. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  18. ↑ Yamamoto Tatsurō (International Christian University) (1978). 東アジア及び東南アジア地域における文化摩擦の研究-東南アジア現代史年表の作成-（特定研究） (in Japanese). CRID 1040000782380126464. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  19. ↑ Yamamoto Tatsurō (International Christian University) (1979). 東アジア及び東南アジア地域における文化摩擦の研究-東南アジア現代史年表の作成-（特定研究） (in Japanese). CRID 1040282257357075328. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  20. 1 2 Yamamoto Tatsurō (1991). 東南アジア史学会創立25周年 (25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Japan Society for Southeast Asian History). 東南アジア －歴史と文化－ (Southeast Asia: History and Culture) (in Japanese). 1991 (20). Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies: 133–135. doi:10.5512/sea.1991.133. ISSN 0386-9040.
  21. ↑ About the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies JSSEAS
  22. 1 2 Kazuto Ikeda (March 31, 2023). 阪大箕面における外国学研究大学院の構築と東南アジア5 専攻の取り組み (Construction of the Graduate School for Foreign Studies at Osaka University Minoh Campus and the Efforts of the Five Southeast Asian Majors). Journal EX ORIENTE (in Japanese). 27. Osaka University Language and Society Academic Society: 29-50. doi:10.18910/91318. p. 34: The Southern History Research Group established by Yamamoto Tatsurō within the Oriental History Research Office of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo became the mother body of the later Japan Society for Southeast Asian History.
  23. ↑ Tsuneo Suzuki (2001). "Mourning the Passing of Professor Yamamoto Tatsurō" 山本達郎先生のご逝去を悼む. Newsletter of the Japan Society for Southeast Asian History (in Japanese) (74). Japan Society for Southeast Asian History: 3.
  24. ↑ 財団法人東洋文庫所蔵 山本達郎博士寄贈書資料 検索 (Search for the Book Collection Donated by Dr. Yamamoto Tatsurō, Held by the Tōyō Bunko Foundation). May 22, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  25. ↑ Yumio Sakurai (2004). 山本達郎氏遺贈図書について (Regarding the Books Bequeathed by Mr. Yamamoto Tatsurō). Tōyō Bunko Shoho (in Japanese) (36). Tōyō Bunko: 75-83. 7472930.
  26. ↑ Tōyō Bunko Library Department, ed. (2012). Catalogue of Dr. T. Yamamoto collection in Tōyō Bunko — books in European, South Asian and Southeast Asian languages (in Japanese). Tōyō Bunko. Alternative title Catalogue of Books Donated by Dr. Yamamoto Tatsurō, total pages 455.
  27. ↑ Tōyō Bunko, ed. (March 2012). 和漢書・越南文献篇 (Japanese and Chinese Books / Vietnamese Documents Section). Catalogue of Books Donated by Dr. Yamamoto Tatsurō (in Japanese). Tōyō Bunko. ISBN 978-4-8097-0268-6. NCID 22124637.
  28. ↑ Junzo Matoba, Former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, "Thoughts / Imperial Family: My Opinion / 5 (Final) Changes in the Significance of Era Names", Mainichi Shimbun, October 22, 2016, Morning Edition
  29. ↑ 「平成」選定の背景 頭文字 昭和と異なる「Ｈ」に (Background of the Selection of "Heisei": Initial Letter "H" Different from Showa). Nihon Keizai Shimbun (in Japanese). Nikkei, Inc. January 22, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  30. ↑ Government of India; Archaeological Survey of India. "Central Archaeological Library." Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts IGNCA, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo (Publisher), University of Tokyo Press (Production), February 1969.
  31. ↑ CRID 1390282680314510592 , doi:10.5512/sea.1971.146, ISSN 0386-9040
  32. ↑ A summary of the original work published in an academic journal. Luce, Gordon H.; Bo-Hmu Ba Shin (1970). "Old Burma: Early Pagán". Artibus Asiae. Supplementum: 4-143+145-467. doi:10.2307/1522661. ISSN 1423-0526. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  33. ↑ Successive Presidents Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies
  34. ↑ Current Status of the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies
  35. ↑ Kenjiro Ichikawa (1976). モンスーン・学界消息 : 華僑研究の再評価傾向 (Monsoon/Academic News: Trend Toward Re-evaluating Overseas Chinese Studies). 東南アジア －歴史と文化－ (Southeast Asia: History and Culture) (in Japanese). 1976 (6). Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies: 169–199. doi:10.5512/sea.1976.169. ISSN 1883-7557.
  36. ↑ Japan Academy
  37. ↑ 1998年度文化勲章受章者および文化功労者 (FY1998 Recipients of the Order of Culture and Persons of Cultural Merit). Kagaku (in Japanese). 68 (12). Iwanami Shoten: 984 (Frame Number 0044.jp2). 1998. doi:10.11501/3218427.
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