Ichirō Inaba

Ichirō Inaba (稲葉 一郎, Inaba Ichirō, 3 May 1936 – 23 September 2017) was a Japanese historian of China and professor emeritus at Kwansei Gakuin University.

Ichirō Inaba
Born(1936-05-03)May 3, 1936
Osaka, Japan
DiedSeptember 23, 2017(2017-09-23) (aged 81)
Ikoma, Nara, Japan
Academic background
Alma materKyoto University
Academic work
Institutions

Career

Ichirō Inaba graduated from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters in 1966.[1] He studied under Ichisada Miyazaki, and his doctoral thesis was on official historians of the Six Dynasties.[2] Following graduation, he lectured at a university for a year and two months before landing an assistant job at Ritsumeikan University, where he taught Chinese Historical Thought and Pre-Modern Chinese History after 1977. In October 1978, he visited China with a group of historians and archaeologists.[3]

He was promoted to full professor in 1979, and a year later he joined the School of Humanities at Kwansei Gakuin University. He stayed there for over two decades before retiring in 2005.[1]

Works

Inaba's research focused on the historical and economic views of Chinese statesmen, historians and philosophers, including Sang Hongyang, Sima Guang, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Han Fei, Yuan Jue, and Zhang Xuecheng.[4] He wrote a chapter for Chinese Medieval History Research (中国中世史研究, Kyoto University Press, 1970[5]) and contributed several entries to the western reference book A Sung Bibliography[6] (French: Bibliographie des Sung, The Chinese University Press, 1978).

His own books include Chinese Historical Thought: A Study of Jizhuanti (中国の歴史思想―紀伝体考, Sobunsha, 1999) and A Study of the History of Chinese Historiography (中国史学史の研究, Kyoto University Press, 2006), which collected his papers from several decades.[7]

He also authored a travel photography book titled Traveling in Jiangnan: Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai (江南旅情―蘇州・杭州・上海, U-Time, 2005), featuring photos from the Jiangnan region of China.[8]

Death

In 2017, Inaba died from acute subdural hematoma in Ikoma, Nara. He was 81.[9]

References
  1. "中国史学史の研究" [A Study of the History of Chinese Historiography]. Yokohama City Library (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. Inaba, Ichirō (31 March 1996). "宮崎先生への追憶" [Recollections of Mr. Miyazaki] (PDF). Tôyôshi Kenkyû : The Journal of Oriental Researches (in Japanese). 54 (4): 9. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. Tang Yijie; Zhang Yaonan; Fang Ming, eds. (2001). "海外汉学家集录 (A List of Foreign Sinologists)". 中国儒学文化大观 [An Overview of Chinese Confucian Culture]. CNKI (in Chinese). Peking University Press. ISBN 7-301-04772-3 Check |isbn= value: checksum (help). Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. "検索結果 稲（稻）葉 一郎". Kwansei Gakuin University Repository (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. Otagi, Hajime (1 November 1970). "<書評>中国中世史研究会編 中国中世史研究" [Book Review: Chinese Medieval History Research Committee's Chinese Medieval History Research] (PDF). The Shirin: Journal of History (in Japanese). 53 (6): 894–899. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  6. Balazs, Etienne; Hervouet, Yves, eds. (1978). A Sung Bibliography. The Chinese University Press. p. 496. ISBN 962-201-158-6.
  7. Huang Chun-chieh (17 November 2014). 儒家思想與中國歷史思維 [Confucian Thought and Chinese Historical Views] (in Chinese). National Taiwan University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9789863500476. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  8. "江南旅情 蘇州・杭州・上海". U-Time Publishing Co. (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  9. "稲葉一郎氏死去／関西学院大名誉教授" [Ichirō Inaba (Professor Emeritus, Kwansei Gakuin University) Dies]. The Shikoku Shimbun (in Japanese). 27 September 2017.
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