Shinobu Orikuchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shinobu Orikuchi

Japanese writer and academic

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1887

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 03-Sep-1953

Profession: writer, poet, theologian, university teacher, novelist, tanka poet, linguist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Shinobu Orikuchi (?? ??, Orikuchi Shinobu, 11 February 1887–3 September 1953), also known as Choku Shaku (? ??, Shaku Choku), was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.
As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named "Orikuchiism" (???, Orikuchigaku), which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shinto.
He produced many works in a diversity of fields covering the history of literature, folkloric performing arts, folklore itself, Japanese language, the classics study, Shintoology, ancient study, and so on.
Yukio Mishima once called him the "Japanese Walter Pater".