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Hiroshi Udagawa

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Hiroshi Udagawa
Born(1944-Missing required parameter 1=month!-00)Missing required parameter 1=month! , 1944
Hokkaido, Japan
Other names宇田川 洋
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, Anthropologist

Hiroshi Udagawa (宇田川 洋, Udagawa Hiroshi, born 1944) is a Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist.

Biography

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He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo since 1994, he is an expert in Ainu and northern/Siberian archeology. He is mainly involved in archaeological research of the Jōmon period, and is an authority on Okhotsk culture through Satsumon era. He has authored a number of books specifically about Ainu archaeology, including a 1986 book on the Ainu musical instrument, the tonkori, in collaboration with Eijiro Kanaya.[1] Although professor of the University of Tokyo, the majority of his career was spent in the North Sea Cultural Studies training facility in the town of Tokoro.

References

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  1. ^ Tokita, Alison; Hughes, Dr. David W. (2008). The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-7546-5699-9.