Sayama Yūkichi

No date of birth or death is known for Sayama Yūkichi, of whom little is known beyond his role in the colonial survey of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. An auxiliary member of the Temporary Commission for the Investigation of the Island's Old Customs, he worked from 1909 in the section devoted to them, alongside Kojima Yoshimichi, Hirai Matahachi and Kōno Kiroku, and directed the publication of its reports. These field surveys, carried out while learning the languages of the villages, predate Western research of the same kind.

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• Tale蕃族調查報告書Sayama Yūkichi · 1915not translated into EnglishLiterature