Yūkichi Takeda | |
Birth Name: | 武田祐吉 |
Birth Date: | 5 May 1886 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Occupation: | Japanese literary scholar, School teacher |
Known For: | Study of Kojiki and Man'yōshū |
Footnotes: | Infobox contains data from Japanese Wikipedia |
was a scholar of Japanese literature.
He was born in the Nihonbashi Ward of Tokyo City (modern-day Chūō Ward, Tokyo).
He became a lecturer as Kokugakuin University in 1926. He is known for his research on the Kojiki and the Man'yōshū, and in 1950[1] was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for his work on the Man'yōshū.