Kōsaku Hamada
Born(1881-02-22)February 22, 1881
Tokyo
DiedJuly 25, 1938(1938-07-25) (aged 57)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationArchaeologist

Kōsaku Hamada (濱田 耕作, Hamada Kōsaku, February 22, 1881 – July 25, 1938), also known as Seiryō Hamada,[1] was a Japanese academic, archaeologist, author and President of Kyoto University.[2]

Early life

Hamada was born in Osaka. He was educated at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University; and he studied in England.[2]

Career

In 1917, Hamada was the first archaeology professor at the Kyoto University; and he is credited with the introduction of modern research methods in Japan. His fieldwork included archaeological digs in Japan, Korea and China.[2]

At the pinnacle of his academic career, Hamada was installed as university president in 1937.[3]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kōsaku Hamada, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 3 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.[4]

  • 有竹齋藏古玉譜 (1925)
  • 百済観音 (1926)
  • 支那古明器泥象圖說 (1927)
  • Pʼi-tzu-wo; prehistoric sites by the river Pi-liu-ho, South Manchuria (1929)
  • 東亞文明の黎明 (1930)
  • 東亞考古學研究 (1930)
  • 天正遣歐使節記 (1931)
  • 南山裡: 南滿洲老鐵山麓の漢代甎墓 Nan-shan-li: Brick-tombs of the Han dynasty at the foot of Mt. Lao-t'ieh, South Manchuria (1933)
  • 營城子: 前牧城驛附近の漢代壁晝甎墓 Ying-ch'êng-tzŭ (1934)
  • 删訂泉屋清賞 (1934)
  • 新羅古瓦の研究 (1934)
  • 古物硏究 (1936)
  • 日本美術史硏究 (1940)
Articles
  • "Chifeng Hongshanhou," Archaeologia Orientalis, ser. A, No. 6. Far-Eastern Archaeology Society of Japan, (1938).

Notes

  1. ↑ Library of Congress authority file, Kōsaku Hamada, nr99-7854
  2. 1 2 3 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hamada Kōsaku" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 281, p. 281, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
  3. ↑ Kyoto University, presidents (English) Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine; presidents (Japanese) Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: 濱田耕作 1881-1938

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128


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