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Hiroshi Kanaseki is a Japanese archaeologist and an Emeritus Professor of Tenri University (Fig. 1). He was born in Kyoto in 1927 as the second son of the famous anthropologist, Takeo Kanaseki. Takeo learned archaeological methodology at Kyoto University from Kosaku Hamada, who is regarded as the father of archaeology in Japan, while he worked as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Anatomy of the university. Takeo Kanaseki submitted a doctoral thesis on the anthropological study of Ryukyu people in East Asia, three years after Hiroshi was born, and then moved to Taipei to become a Professor of the former National Taiwan University. Hiroshi Kanaseki joined his father on the island in 1936. During his teenage years in Taiwan, Hiroshi often accompanied his father to help at archaeological excavations.
Hiroshi Kanaseki (left) with Claire Smith and Katsu Okamura at WAC Inter-Congress, Osaka, January, 2006 (© Hidetaka Bessho)
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Kanaseki, H. 1982. Kami wo maneku tori. [Bird serving as a guide for the God.], in Publication Committee for Doctor Yukio Kobayashi’s Seventieth Birthday Memorial Essays (ed.) Koko-gaku ronko. [A collection of papers on archaeology.]: 281-303. Tokyo: Heibon-sha (in Japanese).
- 1985. Sekai no kokogaku to nihon no kokogaku [Archaeologies in the world and archaeology in Japan.], in Y. Kondo et al. (ed.) Iwanami koza: nihon kokogaku. [The Iwanami’s academic courses: Japanese archaeology.] Volume 1: 301-43. Tokyo: Iwanami-Shoten (in Japanese).
- 1986. Jujutsu to matsuri [Magic and ritual.], in Y. Kondo et al. (ed.) Iwanami koza: nihon kokogaku. [The Iwanami’s academic courses: Japanese archaeology.] Volume 4: 269-306. Tokyo: Iwanami-Shoten (in Japanese).
- 1988. Seishin seikatsu [Spiritual life.], in H. Otsuka, M. Tozawa & M. Sahara (ed.) Nihon kokogaku wo manabu: Shinpan. [Studying the Japanese archaeology: new edition.] Volume 2: 292-309. Tokyo: Yuhikaku (in Japanese).
- 1993. Kosho-bo shutsudo no gazo-mon ni tsuite. [On the pictorial motif on the grave goods found in Gao Zhuang Tomb.], in Publication Committee for Mr Kiyotari Tsuboi’s Seventieth Birthday Memorial Essays (ed.) Ron’en koko-gaku. [A collection of papers on archaeology.]: 737-49. Tokyo: Tenzan-sha (in Japanese).
- 1997. Saishu kogi roku: ibutsu no kokogaku, iseki no kokogaku. [Final lecture: archaeology of objects and archaeology of sites.] Koji [Ancient matters] 1: 54-65 (in Japanese).
- 2004. Yayoi no Shuzoku to Shukyo. [Mores and religion of Yayoi period.] Tokyo: Gakusei-sha (in Japanese).
Kokubu, N., et al. 1968. Kanaseki Takeo hakushi nenpu [A chronological record of Dr. Takeo Kanaseki’s career.], in Publication Committee for Professor Takeo Kanaseki’s Seventieth Birthday Memorial Essays (ed.) Nihon minzoku to nanpou bunka. [The Japanese race and south cultures.]: 959-65. Tokyo: Heibon-sha (in Japanese).
Publication Committee for Professor Takeo Kanaseki’s Seventieth Birthday Memorial Essays. 1997. Kanko ni atatte [Foreword.], in Publication Committee for Professor Takeo Kanaseki’s Seventieth Birthday Memorial Essays (ed.) Shukyo to kokogaku. [Religion and archaeology.]: 1-3 Tokyo: Bensei-sha (in Japanese).
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Tomii, M. (2014). Kanaseki, Hiroshi. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2459
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