Takashi Inukai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Scholar of Japanese literature and poetry
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Takashi Inukai
- Takashi Inukai (?? ?, Inukai Takashi, April 1, 1907 – October 3, 1998) was a professor at Osaka University and Konan Women's University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially the Man'yoshu poetry.
- He earned his bachelor's degree in Japanese literature from the University of Tokyo in 1932, as well as its Ph.D.
- in 1962.
- He received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Japanese Government in 1978.
- He was qualified as a person of cultural merit in 1987.
- Upon his death, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, was posthumously granted on him. When he was a professor of Osaka University, he walked around with his students the places where each verse of the Man'yoshu was composed, in order to help them understand the essences of the Man'yoshu more deeply.
- His idea impressed the students very much, and they went for more than 250 trips all over the country for almost 50 years, until he died in 1998.
- The total number of participants of those Osaka University Man'yo trips reached more than 40,000. In addition to teaching his students, he helped the people be more familiar with the Man'yoshu.
- Countless of people was attracted by the Man'yoshu thanks to his activities.
- He gave a lecture on Man'yoshu to Emperor Showa on the top of a hill in Asuka, Nara, on December 4, 1979.
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