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[[File:Tsuboi-graves.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Tsuboi Shôgorô, his wife Naoko, and his father [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]], at [[Somei Cemetery]] in Tokyo]]
*''Born: [[1863]]''
*''Died: 1913''
*''Japanese'': [[坪井]]正五郎 ''(Tsuboi Shougorou)''
Tsuboi Shôgorô is considered one of the founders or fathers of anthropology and archaeology in Japan.
Born in [[Edo]] in [[1863]] the son of [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]]<!--坪井信良-->, Shôgorô went on to graduate from [[Tokyo Imperial University]] in [[1886]], founding the Tokyo Anthropological Society that same year. After studying abroad for a time in England and France, he become a professor at his alma mater in [[1892]].
Among his many works of scholarship, Tsuboi proposed and advocated for the theory that the first indigenous people to occupy the Japanese islands were a people who appear in Ainu legends as the ''[[korpokkur]]''. His so-called "korpokkur theory" was hotly debated by others of the time.
In [[1903]], he played a key role in organizing the "Pavilion of Mankind" (''Jinruikan'') at the [[Fifth Domestic Exposition]] in [[Osaka]]. This pavilion is infamous today as a classic example of the "human zoo," commonly practiced by many colonial powers at that time, and seen also at the [[1904]] [[St. Louis World's Fair]]; at Tsuboi's pavilion at Osaka, [[Ainu]] and [[Taiwanese aborigines]] were put on display, in mock recreations of their traditional clothing and homes, to be seen by visitors to the expo. [[Okinawan people|Okinawans]] famously refused to be put on display, and somehow were permitted to exempt themselves.
Tsuboi died in 1913 in St. Petersburg.
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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%9D%AA%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%94%E9%83%8E?dic=daijisen&oid=12452200 Tsuboi Shôgorô]," Digital Daijisen, Shogakukan, Inc.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%9D%AA%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%94%E9%83%8E?dic=daijisen&oid=12452200 Tsuboi Shôgorô]," Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten, Asahi Shimbunsha.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
*''Born: [[1863]]''
*''Died: 1913''
*''Japanese'': [[坪井]]正五郎 ''(Tsuboi Shougorou)''
Tsuboi Shôgorô is considered one of the founders or fathers of anthropology and archaeology in Japan.
Born in [[Edo]] in [[1863]] the son of [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]]<!--坪井信良-->, Shôgorô went on to graduate from [[Tokyo Imperial University]] in [[1886]], founding the Tokyo Anthropological Society that same year. After studying abroad for a time in England and France, he become a professor at his alma mater in [[1892]].
Among his many works of scholarship, Tsuboi proposed and advocated for the theory that the first indigenous people to occupy the Japanese islands were a people who appear in Ainu legends as the ''[[korpokkur]]''. His so-called "korpokkur theory" was hotly debated by others of the time.
In [[1903]], he played a key role in organizing the "Pavilion of Mankind" (''Jinruikan'') at the [[Fifth Domestic Exposition]] in [[Osaka]]. This pavilion is infamous today as a classic example of the "human zoo," commonly practiced by many colonial powers at that time, and seen also at the [[1904]] [[St. Louis World's Fair]]; at Tsuboi's pavilion at Osaka, [[Ainu]] and [[Taiwanese aborigines]] were put on display, in mock recreations of their traditional clothing and homes, to be seen by visitors to the expo. [[Okinawan people|Okinawans]] famously refused to be put on display, and somehow were permitted to exempt themselves.
Tsuboi died in 1913 in St. Petersburg.
{{stub}}
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%9D%AA%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%94%E9%83%8E?dic=daijisen&oid=12452200 Tsuboi Shôgorô]," Digital Daijisen, Shogakukan, Inc.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%9D%AA%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%94%E9%83%8E?dic=daijisen&oid=12452200 Tsuboi Shôgorô]," Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten, Asahi Shimbunsha.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]