Kanda Takahira | |
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神田 孝平 | |
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| 1st Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture | |
| In office November 20, 1871 – September 3, 1879 | |
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| Born | October 31, 1830 Fuwa District, Mino Province |
| Died | July 5, 1898 (aged 67) |
Kanda Takahira (神田 孝平, October 31, 1830 – July 5, 1898; pen name Kanda Kōhei) was a scholar and advisor on economics and governmental structure in Meiji period Japan. His translation of William Ellis's Outlines of Social Economy (1846), which he translated to Japanese from a Dutch edition in 1867, is regarded as Japan's earliest study of western economics.[1]
His many other works include An Outline of Natural Law (Seihō ryaku), a volume published in 1871 which he edited based on Nishi Amane's lecture notes which in turn drew from Dutch economist Simon Vissering.[2][3]
- ^ Ericson, Steven J. (2016). "Orthodox Finance and 'The Dictates of Practical Expediency': Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885". Monumenta Nipponica. 71 (1): 83–117. doi:10.1353/mni.2016.0002 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Havens, Thomas R. H. (2015). "3. Study Abroad and Service at Home". Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought. Princeton University Press.
- ^ Howland, Douglas (2001). "Translating Liberty in Nineteenth-Century Japan". Journal of the History of Ideas. 62 (1): 161–181. doi:10.1353/jhi.2001.0005 – via Project MUSE.