Torii RyÅ«zÅ
Torii Ryuzo (Japanese鸟 居 龙 藏; born April 4, 1870 in Tokushima on Shikoku, † January 14, 1953 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese anthropologist and archaeologist.
Life
He was in 1896 a member of the Anthropological Society of Tokyo (1884 based). In 1922, he received a professorship at the Imperial University of Tokyo on the Anthropological Research Institute. Toriis mentor Tsuboi Shōgoro (1863-1913) was established in Tokyo in 1893 Ethnology in Japan.
Torii undertook expeditions into Manchuria and did field research among the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. He was one of the first Japanese researchers who used photography in a large scale. Further research he undertook on Okinawa, on the Kuril Islands, China, Mongolia, Korea, Sakhalin, Siberia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia.
In the years 1906-1908 he toured the eastern Mongolian Plateau and reported on a number of archaeological sites, including the site Hongshanhou, the eponymous site of the Hongshan culture.
The Torii Museum in Naruto, Tokushima is on, devoted to his work. In the 1990s, his work in the exhibitions Lost World on a Dry Plate: Torii Ryuzo 's Asia (1991 ) at the Tokyo University Museum, and Images Throughout the Century: Taiwan Aborigines in the Eyes of Torii Ryuzo (1994 ) on the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines shown in Taiwan.