was a Japanese

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, founder of an influential

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school in

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known as the .

References

*Isao Hirota, « Grandes tendances de l'historiographie japonaise depuis Meiji », Histoire, Économie et Société, vol. 25, no 2, 2006, p. 165-179 (in French
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1907 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Japanese historians {{Japan-historian-stub