Ryūsaku Tsunoda

was a Japan academic and Japanologist.  He is known as the "father of Japanese studies" at Columbia University.Columbia University:  "Founder of Japanese Studies and the Japanese Collection at Columbia University Honored With Event and Exhibition,"  2008; retrieved 2012-11-5.

Career
Tsunoda was responsible for the early growth of the Japanese language and  literature collection at Columbia's library.Columbia University:  About the Japanese Collection; retrieved 2012-11-5. 

Tsunoda's best known students was Donald Keene.Keene, Donald. (1999).  World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, p. xi; Shirai, Katsuhiko.  "Take Pride in Waseda,"  Waseda Weekly, April 2006; retrieved 2012-11-5.   Keene's opinion of Tsunoda was explaind in a lecture given at Waseda University in 1994:
"His vocation was teaching, not writing. His joy as a teacher lay in communicating knowledge directly and enthusiastically to his students.... "Keene, Donald.  "My Mentor, Prof. Ryusaku Tsunoda," Yomiuri Daily Online (Waseda Online). July 8, 1994).

According to Sir George Sansom, Tsunoda was the "father of Japanese studies in America".de Bary, William Theodore. "East Asian Studies at Columbia: The Early Years," Living Legacies: Great Moments and Leading Figures in the History of Columbia University, 2002; retrieved 2012-11-5.

Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Tsunoda, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 50 works in 100+2 publications in 4 languages and 2,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities: Tsunoda, Ryūsaku 1877-1964; retrieved 2012-11-5. 
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 Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories, 1951 (with L. Carrington Goodrich)
 Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vols. I-II, 1958 (with William Theodore de Bary and Donald Keene)

References

Other websites
  Tsunoda, Ryūsaku at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) 
 Waseda University:  "Tsunoda Ryūsaku -- his life as a bridge between Japan and America," 2008.

Category:1877 births
Category:1964 deaths
Category:Japanologists