Shinpei Ogura

Shinpei Ogura (小倉進平, Ogura Shinpei, 1882–1944) was a Japanese linguist who studied the Korean language. In the 1920s, Ogura made the initial breakthroughs in the decipherment of the hyangga songs, which are now key sources on Old Korean.^[1] Ogura conducted an extensive national survey of Korean dialects. Partly because such surveys have been impossible since the division of Korea in 1945, his dialect classification is still widely used, with some modifications.^[2]

Selected works[]

• Chōsengo gakushi 朝鮮語学史 [History of the Study of Korean]. Osaka. 1920. doi:10.11501/1870268. Revised edition, 1940: doi:10.11501/1869842.
• Kyōka oyobi rito no kenkyū 鄉歌及び吏讀の研究 [A study of hyangga and idu] (in Japanese). Seoul: Keijō Imperial University. 1929. doi:10.11501/1119562.
• "The outline of the Korean dialects". Memoirs of the Research Department of the Tōyō Bunko. 12: 1–143. 1940.
• Chōsengo hōgen no kenkyū 朝鮮語方言の研 [A Study of the Korean Dialects] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Iwanami Bunko. 1944. Volume 1: doi:10.11501/1869828. Volume 2: doi:10.11501/1869845.

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Further reading[]

• "Ogura Shimpei (1882–1944) and Korean Language". The Journal of Modern Korean Studies. 1: 82–86. 1984.
• Jung, Seung-chul (2010). "Sinpei Ogura (小倉進平)'s Career and Studies". The Journal of Korean Dialectology (in Korean). 11: 155–184. (first 10 pages)