Kitagawa Katsuhiko

北川 勝彦

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Obituary Professor Kiyoshi Hamano (1958-2013)著者 Kitagawa Katsuhikojournal orpublication titleKansai University review of economicsvolume 16page range 1-1year 2014-03URL http://hdl.handle.net/10112/00017197ObituaryProfessor Kiyoshi Hamano (1958-2013)Economic historians will be greatly saddened to learn of the passing of ProfessorKiyoshi Hamano last December. Prof. Hamano made an outstanding, substantial, andenduring contribution to our understanding of Japanese economic history and historical demography, one that has perhaps been sufficiently recognized because of hisown exceptional involvement.His interests in Japanese economic and demographic history began when hestarted his academic career at the graduate school of Keio University. By engagingin several research initiatives abroad throughout his academic life, including hisscholarship as an MA student at the University of Hawaii and his research leave atEmory University, he developed and extended his ideas about specific fields of studies.His extraordinary book Historical Demography in the Early Modern Kyoto:Toward Understanding Social Structure of Towns People was published in 2007.Later volumes included Japanese Economic History 1600-2000: The PresentLooking through the Past (coauthor, 2009) and How Historical DemographyUnderstands Japan in the Edo Period (2011).Whether writing about economic history in Japan or drawing on his research ofdemographic history. Prof. Hamano's characteristic approach was comparative andanalytical. His work was firmly based on primary sources in early modern Kyoto inparticular and in Tokugawa Japan in general. His research and publications alsoreflected the growing interest in this field, and while engaging with emerging themesand concepts within the discipline, he retained a sound rootedness in empirical investigation and analysis. Thus, his writings were always extremely lucid, well argued,and readable.Prof. Hamano's interests were not merely academic but also educational. He hada lifelong commitment to improving and developing the teaching of economic sciencein particular and university education in general. Beyond this commitment, herelished outdoor life: walking, jogging, and participating in long-distance running.As his colleagues can testify, Prof. Hamano was a thoughtful and gentle manwith a very distinctive sense of humor who never believed in forcing his opinions onothers. However, he was also principled, driven by a strong sense of professionalismand commitment to his undergraduate and graduate students and to the cause ofdeveloping Japanese economic history and historical demography.(Katsuhiko Kitagawa)1

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