Arthur Lindsay Sadler (1882–1970) was Professor of Oriental Studies at the

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Sadler, Arthur Lindsay (1882–1970)
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Life and career

Sadler was born in Hackney, London and educated at the

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(B.A., 1908; M.A., 1911). From 1909 he worked in Japan as a teacher and was an active member of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Sadler was the Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney from 1922 to 1948 (his predecessor being the foundation professor,

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)."Long Neglect of Study of Oriental Languages", ''

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'', 28 March 1955, p. 2. He also taught at the Royal Military College of Australia. His publications included an English translation of ''

Hōjōki , variously translated as ''An Account of My Hut'' or ''The Ten Foot Square Hut'', is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei. Written in March 1212, the work depicts the Buddhist ...

'' and ''

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'' under the title of ''The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike'' (1928; 1972); ''The Art of Flower Arrangement in Japan'' (1933); ''Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony'' (1933; 1962); ''Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of

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'' (1937); an English translation of

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's ''Budo Shoshinshu'' under the title of ''The Code of The Samurai'' (1941; 1988); ''A Short History of Japanese Architecture'' (1941); an English translation of ''The Articles of

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'', of ''The Precepts of

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'' and of ''

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on the Art of War'' as ''Three Military Classics of China'' (1944); and ''A Short History of Japan'' (1946). One of Sadler's teachers at Oxford in the early 1900s had been Dr. Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher and, when in 1936 the latter was appointed the first head of the Department of Old Testament Language and Literature at the University of Sydney, one of four departments offering courses for the new Bachelorate of Divinity there, Sadler assisted in lecturing duties and in other ways. After retirement from the University of Sydney (his successors in the professorship being John Kennedy Rideout in 1948 and then by A. R. Davis in 1955), Sadler returned to

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and settled in the

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village of

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. At Bardfield he became friendly with several of the

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. He spent his final years living in Stubbards Croft in Great Bardfield and later at Buck's House in the same village.

Personal life

In 1916 he married Eva Botan Seymour (1893-1978), an Anglo-Japanese, in Tokyo. They would have no children.Maria (Connie) Tornatore-Loong
Exhibition Preview: Japan in Sydney: Arthur Lindsay Sadler, Japan and Australian Modernism, 1920s - 1930s
''The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia'',Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2011, pp. 20-21. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

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The ten foot square hut, and Tales of the Heike; being two thirteenth-century Japanese classics, the "Hojoki" and selections from the "Heike monogatari"
', translated by A. L. Sadler (Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972 reprint) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sadler, A.L. 1882 births 1970 deaths British orientalists Japanese–English translators 20th-century British translators University of Sydney faculty Australian orientalists Australian Japanologists Alumni of St John's College, Oxford People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood People educated at Dulwich College People from Hackney Central People from Great Bardfield British emigrants to Australia

Life and career

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