Kurono Yoshibumi

Definition: Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg University
Years of life: 1859-1918
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Genus. in 1859 in Tokyo He received his primary education there. In 1873, he entered the Gaikokago Gakko School of Foreign Languages, and, after his father's advice, chose Russian. A few years later, he himself taught Russian to young Japanese people, translating articles from St. Petersburg magazines and publishing them in Japanese periodicals. He was one of the founders of the Russian Houkmeikai Science Society, his goal being to popularize information about Russian culture and history in Japan. He devoted approximately ten years to the creation of a Russian-Japanese dictionary. In order to expand his knowledge of the Russian language, literature and history, he visited St. Petersburg in 1887. A year later he became a teacher at St. Petersburg University. He published in St. Petersburg the textbook “Introduction to the Study of the Japanese Language” and a book for reading on the Japanese language. Author of an essay on the history of Russian-Japanese relations. He lived in Russia for about three decades, training several generations of Russian Japanese scholars. He died on December 8, 1918 on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
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Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Невский Николай Александрович
5. Article by Reshetov A.M. "ON THE. Nevsky as an ethnographer" in the journal "Ethnographic Review" No. 6, 1993.
5 листов, 5 изображений, ксерокопия
Alekseev Vasily Mikhailovich, Bartold Vasily Vladimirovich, Veselovsky Nikolai Ivanovich, Ivanov A.I., Kotvich V.L., Kurono Yoshibumi, Montani-Nevskaya Isoko, Nevsky Nikolai Alexandrovich, Pletner Orest Viktorovich, Popov P.S., Ramming Martin, Reshetov Alexander Mikhailovich, Shien Quan, Sternberg Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich, Shcherba Lev Vladimirovich
1993