Name Susumu Nakanishi | Role Literary Scholar | |
Susumu Nakanishi (中西進, Nakanishi Susumu, born 1929 in Tokyo) is a scholar of Japanese literature, particularly of the Man'yōshū.
Overview
He is the honorary president of the Nara Prefecture Complex of Manyo Culture, president of the Koshinokuni Museum of Literature, and has been a guest lecturer at Princeton University.
In 1970 he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for his research in comparative literature and the Man'yōshū, and in 2013 he received the Order of Culture. He has been called "probably the greatest living scholar of the Man'yōshū in Japan".
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