Ishida Eiichirō
Japanese folklorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ishida Eiichirō was a Japanese scholar of folklore. Biography He became a communist at an early age, and was convicted under the Peace Preservation Law in 1928 and sentenced to five years jail. During his term of incarceration, he read widely, both in the Chinese classics and Western anthropology. On his release in 1934, he attended a lecture by the doyen of folklore studies, Yanagita Kunio, where he became acquainted with Oka Masao, who had just returned from completing a degree in ethnology at Vienna University. Through Oka's offices he was introduced to, and married, a granddaughter of Yanagita's older brother. Vexations were not wholly relieved by this advantageous connection. He remained unemployed, and had to suffer monthly visits by police agents who kept him under surveillance. The impasse in his career was overcome when Oka managed to secure for him a scholarship to study abroad at his own alma mater, Vienna University.
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