Tadahisa Ishikawa, a leading researcher of Chinese poetry in Japan and a former president of Nishogakusha University, died at a hospital in Tokyo on the 12th of this month due to heart failure.
He was 90 years old.
Tadahisa Ishikawa is from Tokyo and entered the University of Tokyo and continued to study Chinese literature until graduate school.
After that, he was a professor at JF Oberlin University and Nishogakusha University, and was also the president of Nishogakusha University from 2001 to 2005.
In 2003, he established the All Japan Chinese Poetry Federation and made efforts to popularize Chinese poetry in Japan by hosting lectures and conventions in various places. It was familiar with easy-to-understand explanations.
Also, in 2019, when selecting a new era to replace "Heisei", it was revealed that one of the original drafts "Manwa" presented by the government was devised. From what to what is well done. "
According to the people concerned, Mr. Ishikawa died of heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on the 12th of this month.
He was 90 years old.