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Kanori Ino was born in 1867 in Tono city, Iwate prefecture. He lost the mother in childhood and grew under grandparents' strict education. He was absorbed in the Freedom and People's Rights Movement in Iwate prefecture in the 1880s. He entered the Iwate normal school in 1886. However, he was dissatisfied to the educational contents of the school and high-handed politics, so he quit the school. After it, he went to Tokyo immediately, and he was engaged in newspaper work. He studied under Professor Seigoro Tsuboi of the Tokyo empire university, learned anthropology from 1893, and he had a thick interest to anthropology. He announced "About Oshira-Gami" at the anthropology meeting in 1894 (the beginning of the Tono's folklore ). After outbreak of the Japanese-China War (1894), he prepares toward exploration of Taiwan. Taiwan was included in the territory of Japan and Kanori Ino was able to go by army part-time engagement to Taiwan immediately in 1895. And he investigated Taiwan for about ten years. It made him the founder who studies the native people of Taiwan. Furthermore, he will offer indispensable data for the future generations. Kanori Ino left the job of Taiwan governor-general's office, and returned to the hometown Tono, in 1906. After he returned to Tono, he was engaged in the Taiwan research, and he was engaged also in research of Tono. He announced "Taiwan culture" which is the highest masterpiece of Taiwan research. (In 1910 , Kunio Yanagida announced "The Legends of Tono (Tono Monogarari)" which received influence by Kanori Ino.) Since the malaria infected in Taiwan recurred, he died in 1925. Kanori Ino is "the pioneer of the Taiwan study". |