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Born in [[Edo]] in [[1863]] the son of [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]]<!--坪井信良-->, Shôgorô went on to attend [[Tokyo Imperial University]]; he was one of three men from the university who made the very first discovery of [[Yayoi period]] materials in [[1884]], just outside the campus.<ref>Plaques on-site at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref> Tsuboi graduated from the Imperial University in [[1886]], and founded the Tokyo Anthropological Society that same year. After studying abroad for a time in England and France (including with E.B. Tylor, a prominent early figure in British archaeology), he become a professor at his alma mater in [[1892]].

Born in [[Edo]] in [[1863]] the son of [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]]<!--坪井信良-->, Shôgorô went on to attend [[Tokyo Imperial University]]; he was one of three men from the university who made the very first discovery of [[Yayoi period]] materials in [[1884]], just outside the campus.<ref>Plaques on-site at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref> Tsuboi graduated from the Imperial University in [[1886]], and founded the Tokyo Anthropological Society that same year. After studying abroad for a time in England and France (including with E.B. Tylor, a prominent early figure in British archaeology), he become a professor at his alma mater in [[1892]].

Shôgorô reportedly received severe reprimands from the [[Imperial Household Agency]] after excavating ''[[kofun]]'' in Kyushu in the late 1880s-[[1890]] which had been, at that time, in the process of being identified as imperial tombs; though remaining prominent and active in the archaeological and anthropological professional field and in related activities, he reportedly acquired an aversion to ''kofun'' excavations and even to some extent to [[Kofun period]] topics after that.<ref>Simon Kaner, Ishibashi Foundation lectures.</ref>

Shôgorô reportedly received severe reprimands from the [[Imperial Household Agency]] after excavating ''[[kofun]]'' in Kyushu in the late 1880s-[[1890]] which had been, at that time, in the process of being identified as imperial tombs; though remaining prominent and active in the archaeological and anthropological professional field and in related activities, he reportedly acquired an aversion to ''kofun'' excavations and even to some extent to [[Kofun period]] topics after that.<ref>Simon Kaner, "What the Foreign Specialist William Gowland Saw in the Burial Mounds," Ishibashi Foundation lectures, Tokyo National Museum, 25 Oct 2014.[https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/info/second-ishibashi-foundation-lecture-series-2014]</ref>

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.

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.