UMESAO Tadao's 100thAnniversary: The Frontrunner of IntellectualProduction

摘要

A good explorer is a good writer. This is true for Tadao Umesao (1920–2010), the founder of Minpaku. However, readers do not often see these two talents coming together, especially in Japan where academic expeditions were not common until the 1930s. In the thematic exhibition, we showed how Umesao recorded his observations in the field, and how he analyzed myriads of notes by arranging and standardizing them. Among many of his achievements as a field researcher, the exhibition focused especially on his expeditions to Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Mainland Southeast Asia.