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Created page with "*''Born: 1901/8/28'' *''Died: 1991/9/4'' *''Japanese'': 反町 茂雄 ''(Sorimachi Shigeo)'' Sorimachi Shigeo was a 20th century scholar of book history, and book dea..."
*''Born: [[1901]]/8/28''
*''Died: 1991/9/4''
*''Japanese'': [[反町]] 茂雄 ''(Sorimachi Shigeo)''
Sorimachi Shigeo was a 20th century scholar of book history, and book dealer.
Originally from [[Niigata prefecture]], he attended [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]. He first began working for Isseidô Bookstore in the Kanda district of [[Tokyo]] in 1927. Five years later, he established his own operation, Kôbunshô (弘文荘), selling books by catalog (without a storefront).
Through his efforts in the book world, he helped uncover a number of manuscripts and other old books which had not been known to be extant, including a copy of [[Matsuo Basho|Matsuo Bashô's]] ''Kai ôi'', and a copy of the Tameie version of ''[[Tosa nikki]]''. A [[1671]] handscroll painting in the University of Hawaii's [[Sakamaki Shunzo|Sakamaki]]-[[Frank Hawley|Hawley]] Collection, the oldest known scroll depicting the street procession of a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]], also bears his seal.<ref>Yokoyama Manabu, ''Ryûkyûkoku shisetsu tôjô gyôretsu emaki wo yomu'', in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'' (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), 172.</ref>
Sorimachi also wrote a number of works on book history, including ''Nihon no kotenseki'' ("Old Books of Japan") and ''Ichi koshoshi no omoide'' ("Memories of One Old Bookshop").
Sorimachi died in 1991 at the age of 90.
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%8F%8D%E7%94%BA%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84-1086252 Sorimachi Shigeo]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha 2015.
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[[Category:Historians]]
*''Died: 1991/9/4''
*''Japanese'': [[反町]] 茂雄 ''(Sorimachi Shigeo)''
Sorimachi Shigeo was a 20th century scholar of book history, and book dealer.
Originally from [[Niigata prefecture]], he attended [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]. He first began working for Isseidô Bookstore in the Kanda district of [[Tokyo]] in 1927. Five years later, he established his own operation, Kôbunshô (弘文荘), selling books by catalog (without a storefront).
Through his efforts in the book world, he helped uncover a number of manuscripts and other old books which had not been known to be extant, including a copy of [[Matsuo Basho|Matsuo Bashô's]] ''Kai ôi'', and a copy of the Tameie version of ''[[Tosa nikki]]''. A [[1671]] handscroll painting in the University of Hawaii's [[Sakamaki Shunzo|Sakamaki]]-[[Frank Hawley|Hawley]] Collection, the oldest known scroll depicting the street procession of a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]], also bears his seal.<ref>Yokoyama Manabu, ''Ryûkyûkoku shisetsu tôjô gyôretsu emaki wo yomu'', in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'' (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), 172.</ref>
Sorimachi also wrote a number of works on book history, including ''Nihon no kotenseki'' ("Old Books of Japan") and ''Ichi koshoshi no omoide'' ("Memories of One Old Bookshop").
Sorimachi died in 1991 at the age of 90.
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%8F%8D%E7%94%BA%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84-1086252 Sorimachi Shigeo]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha 2015.
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[[Category:Historians]]