was a scholar of

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Biography

He was born in the Nihonbashi Ward of

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(modern-day Chūō Ward,

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). He became a lecturer as

Kokugakuin University Kokugakuin University , abbreviated as ''Kokugakudai'' () or ''Kokudai'' (), is a Shinto-affiliated private research university in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. The university consists of undergraduate departments in humanities and social sciences and ...

in 1926. He is known for his research on the ''

Kojiki The , also sometimes read as or , is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the , and the Japanese imperia ...

'' and the ''

Man'yōshū The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...

'', and in 1950 was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for his work on the ''Man'yōshū''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Takeda, Yukichi 1886 births 1958 deaths Scholars of Japanese literature