Shigeo Kishibe
Educator and children's writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shigeo Kishibe was a Japanese musicologist specializing in the study of East Asian music. Life Kishibe was born in Tokyo in the district of Kanda-Jinbōchō, to Fukuo Kishibe, an educator and children's writer. He was first exposed to music through music in his father's stories, and made his first record and stage appearance at age 9 and first appeared on the radio at age 14. As a teenager, he became fascinated by Asian history. At this time he also met the eminent scholar of Japanese and Asian music Hisao Tanabe. In April 1933, he enrolled at the Tokyo Imperial University Division of Asiatic History of the Faculty of Letters, studying under Hiroshi Ikeuchi. He graduated in 1936, with a graduate thesis on modal systems of popular music of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
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