Ryūsaku Tsunoda | |
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角田 柳作 | |
 Ryūsaku Tsunoda in his Columbia University classroom | |
| Born | (1877-09-08)September 8, 1877 Gunma prefecture, Japan |
| Died | November 29, 1964(1964-11-29) (aged 87) Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Occupation | Japanese studies |
Ryūsaku Tsunoda (角田 柳作,Tsunoda Ryūsaku; 8 September 1877 - 29 November 1964) was a Japanese scholar and is known as the "father ofJapanese studies" atColumbia University.[1] He was directly responsible for developing theJapanese language andliterature collection at Columbia's library.[2] Prominent among the former-students who credit his influence as formative isDonald Keene,[3] who had himself become a later Dean of Japanese studies in the United States.
Tsunoda was the youngest of seven children born to a family of peasants in Japan. He studied atWaseda University, and later developed interest in the United States.[4]
Keene's own perspective on Tsunoda was expressed in a lecture given atWaseda University in 1994:
In an overview of writings by and about Tsunoda,OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 50 works in 100+2 publications in 4 languages and 2,000+ library holdings.[6]
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