Sun Yatsen and a Japanese Naturalist
Sun Yatsen (Son-Bun in Japanese) is the most important figure in the modern Chinese history.
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)[1] was a Chinese revolutionary and president. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China. Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the Xinhai Revolution. Sun was the first provisional president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT), serving as its first leader.[2] Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.In 1897, Sun Yatsen was in London for some political reasons. But he frequently visited the library of the British Museum. There he met a Japanese independent researcher named Kumagusu Minakata. Then they frequently met and discussed various matters, since Sun Yatsen was also a medical doctor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen
During 109 days since the two Asians met for the first time in the academic corner of London till the departure of Sun Yatsen from London, they met more than 26 days.
Afterwards, Kumagusu Minakata returned to Japan to be one of top naturalists in Japan. He reported many slime molds to the international scientific magazine Nature. However, he lived in his home town in Wakayama Prefecture 500km west of Tokyo. Then in 1901 Sun Yatsen came to Japan and further traveled to Wakayama to see Minakata.
Minakata Kumagusu (April 15, 1867 – December 29, 1941) was a Japanese author and naturalist...Minakata Kumagusu, world-renowned Japanese naturalist, came back to Japan in 1900 after 14 years of unique study experience abroad mainly in the U.S. and England...His rising reputation opened the door to friendships with notable figures including Frederick. V. Dickins, registrar of the University of London, as well as people from the British Museum including Sir Robert K. Douglas, director of the Oriental Printed Books section and Charles H. Read, the successor to Franks. He visited the British Museum almost every day...One of the highlights in London was getting to know Sun Yat-sen, father of the Chinese Revolution. Minakata put it in his diary how they hit it off straight away on first acquaintance at the Douglas’s office in the British Museum in March 1897 and quickly developed a friendship through visiting each other and talking till late almost every day. The descriptions, though very brief, reveal the closeness between two friends. Their company lasted only four months until Sun had to leave London for Asia in early July...
Emperor Hirohito, also a biologist, had shown a strong interest in slime molds since he was the Prince Regent. As the Prince, he had read A Monograph of the Slime Molds by Gulielma Lister and told Dr. Hirotaro Hattori of the National Biological Research Institute of his wish to see the specimens. Having learned this interest, Shiro Koaze approached Minakata and his friends from Tokyo University. In November 1926 the team prepared and presented Prince Hirohito with a collection of 90 specimens of 37 genera of Japanese slime molds. It bore the signatures of Koaze as the presenter and Minakata as the selector.
In March 1929, Dr. Hattori secretly visited and requested Minakata to give a lecturer on slime molds to Hirohito, then Emperor, in his future royal visit to the Wakayama region. Minakata telegraphed his acceptance. With no precedent for a commoner giving an imperial lecture, he soon became the center of the public attention and extremely busy preparing specimens. On June 1, 1929, it had been raining since morning. Minakata headed for Kashima Island in a frock coat he had bought in America and kept for years. After taking the Emperor for a walk in the woods on the island, Minakata, while showing specimens, gave a 25-minute lecture, on board the royal ship Nagato, on slime molds and marine life to His Majesty. He also presented the Emperor with gifts including 110 specimens of slime molds kept in empty taffy boxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minakata_Kumagusu
So, as Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and Chiang Kaishek were directly associated with Sun Yatsen, the Showa Emperor was directly associated with Kumagusu Minakata. Indeed just in three steps, even the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese National Party could be linked with a Japanese emperor.
And, my conclusion is that the fact that Sun Yatsen respected Kumagusu Minakata proved that the Chinese revolutionary movement after the fall of the Ching Dynasty was based on some reasonable paradigm, since Sun Yatsen could understand the mind of genuine scientists if he could understand the mind of traditional Chinese gangsters, too.
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