![]() Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies, Kyoto University (in Japanese). Ashikaga also founded the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies at Kyoto University in 1956, which within a year began publishing its own journal, Seinan-Ajia Kenkyū. Bulletin of the Society for the Near Eastern Studies in Japan (in Japanese, since 1955) and Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (in English, since 1960). This society publishes two academic journals, which have served as the main vehicles for Near Eastern studies conducted by Japanese scholars. In 1954, Ashikaga, in cooperation with Prince Mikasa, founded the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai), which started with 64 members, including Ashikaga himself and Gikyo Itō (on whom, see below). After World War II, it was Kyoto University (renamed from Kyoto Imperial University) which became the academic center for philological studies on ancient Iran. Philological studies at Kyoto University. His major contributions are an introduction to ancient Iranian religions (1941) and a general survey of ancient Iranian history (1978), both in Japanese. Viscount Atsuuji Ashikaga (1901-83), who had studied with Émile Benveniste (q.v.) at École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris in 1932-35, started in 1942 as an assistant professor at the Department of Indological Studies, Kyoto Imperial University, and became full professor in 1950. His articles on ancient Iranian studies were collected and published after his death (1988). In 1961, when a Department of Persian Language was established at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, he was offered a teaching position as professor of Iranian studies, but he declined the offer and spent the rest of his life as a teacher of German. He served in the military in China and Burma during World War II. 161 see also Aoki and Einoo, eds., forthcoming).Īraki’s pupil, Kametarō Yagi (1908-86), was appointed in 1932 as a research assistant at the Department of Linguistics, Tokyo Imperial University, and seemed to be a promising heir of Araki but Araki’s early death and his own induction into the army, which caused him to lose his academic position in 1937, forced him to give up his career as a scholar of ancient Iran. His collection, currently owned by the Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University, is now the most complete set of such source materials in Japan and the main starting point for students of the literature of ancient Iran (Henri Massé, “Comptes rendus,” JA 228, Janvier-Mars, 1936, p. ![]() His main publication is a brief summary of ancient Iranian studies in the West to that date (1922 in Japanese). He continued to collect source materials and scholarly books, with the financial support of the Keimeikai Foundation, until his death in 1932. Williams Jackson (q.v.) at Columbia University from 1914 to 1920, began to teach ancient Iranian literature at the Department of Linguistics in Tokyo Imperial University he served as a part-time lecturer from 1922 to 1931. ![]() In Tokyo, Shigeru Araki (1884-1932), who had studied ancient Iran under Abraham V. Although archeological activity was suspended with the advent of the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, it was resumed in 2001 (see also above, v).Īncient Iranian studies in Japan started at the beginning of the 20th century in Tokyo and Kyoto independently. Scholarly interest in ancient Iran in Japan developed from the early 20th century on, suffered a setback with the advent of World War II, but re-emerged stronger than before from the 1950s on, when archeological research and excavation surpassed philology as the leading field of interest. ![]() IRANIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN, PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD ![]()
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