P. G. O'Neill (1924 – 19 January 2012) was a British academic and writer on
Japanese language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ma ...
and
Noh drama.
O'Neill was, with
Ronald P. Dore
Ronald Philip Dore (1 February 1925 – 14 November 2018) was a British sociologist specialising in Japanese economy and society and the comparative study of types of capitalism. He was an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at ...
,
Sir Peter Parker and
John R. McEwan, one of the "Dulwich boys", 30
sixth-formers
In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepare for A-lev ...
who commenced study of Japanese at the
School of Oriental and African Studies
SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury ar ...
in May 1942.
O'Neill was Professor of Japanese at SOAS from 1968 until 1986.
Works
on Noh
* ''Collected Writings''
* ''A Guide to No''
* ''Early No Drama''
* ''Japan on Stage''
on Japanese language
* ''A Reader of Handwritten Japanese''
* ''Japanese Kana Handbook''
* ''A programmed course on respect language in modem Japanese.'' London: English Universities Press, 1966.
review
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* ''Essential Kanji''. (a sequenced introduction to the Tōyō kanji
Toyo may refer to:
Places
*Tōyō, Kōchi, a town in Japan
*Tōyo, Ehime, a former city in Japan
*Toyo Province, a Japanese province divided in 683
*Tōyō, Kumamoto, a village located in Yatsuhiro District, Kumamoto, Japan
* Tōyō, Tokyo, a ...
1946–1981)
* 日英佛教語辞典 A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms, Based on References in Japanese Literature (with INAGAKI, Hisao 稲垣久雄, Kyoto 1984).
* 中日英佛教語辞典 Chinese-Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon. (enlarged edition of above)
* 日本人名辞典 - dictionary of variant pronunciations of Japanese personal names and surnames.
* 日本人名地名辞典 - personal names, surnames and place names dictionary
References
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1924 births
2012 deaths
Academics of SOAS University of London
British Japanologists
People educated at Rutlish School