Yamatologist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Italian yamatologo (“Japanologist”) when used by Italian speakers, from Yamato + -logist otherwise.
Noun
[edit]Yamatologist (plural Yamatologists)
- (chiefly Italian, non-native speakers' English) Synonym of Japanologist (“One who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”)
- 1898 January 5, C[harles] Pfoundes, “The “Social Evil.”: To the Editor of the “Japan Mail.””, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literatire, and Art, volume XXIX, number 2, Yokohama: Printed and published for […] , by Arthur Bellamy Brown, […] , published 1898 January 8, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:
- The most learned amongst the Yamatologists are still dependant upon Japanese for the information that furnishes the basis of all contributions; and why not have the authorities at the meetings, with interpreters for the benefit of those who have not acquired the necessary knowledge of Japanese?
- 1960 March, Giuseppe Morichini, “Review of Early Vedānta Philosophy”, in East and West[1], volume 11, number 1, page 33:
- [Epigraph:] Giuseppe Morichini, the late Italian Yamatologist, was preparing for publication in our East and West a long review on the work by Nakamura Hajime «Indo Tetsugaku Shisô» […]
- 1974 November, “The Activities of the Japan Foundation”, in Morita Tohru, editor, The East, volume 10, number 9, Tokyo: The East Publications, Inc., →OCLC, page 17:
- The division which provides services for non-Japanese specializes in providing support in the form of scholarships to scholars and researchers who plan to study in Japan for more than one month but less than one year, and also in inviting both Yamatologists and non-experts alike to attend international meetings or inspect various Japanese institutions for two or three weeks.
- 1997, Antonio Marazzi, “If Japanese Are Samurai, Italians are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes”, in Beverly Allen, Mary Russo, editors, Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 277:
- For an appropriate translation of this term [baka], I refer to one of the leading Yamatologists in Italy, Professor Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice at Ca’ Foscari.