Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill
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P. G. O'Neill is a British academic and writer on Japanese language
and Noh drama
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P. G. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore
, Sir Peter Parker and John McEwan one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at SOAS in May 1942.
After the war P. G. O'Neill became the first professor of Japanese at SOAS.
Japanese language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Noh drama
Noh
, or - derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent" - is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Many characters are masked, with men playing male and female roles. Traditionally, a Noh "performance day" lasts all day and...
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P. G. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore
Ronald P. Dore
Professor Ronald P. Dore is a British sociologist specialising in Japanese economy and society and the comparative study of types of capitalism. He is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and is a fellow of the British Academy, the Japan Academy,...
, Sir Peter Parker and John McEwan one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at SOAS in May 1942.
After the war P. G. O'Neill became the first professor of Japanese at SOAS.
Works
Noh- Collected Writings ISBN 4-931444-37-7
- A Guide to No
- Early No Drama
- Japan on Stage
Japanese language
- A Reader of Handwritten Japanese
- Japanese Kana Handbook
- A programmed course on respect language in modem Japanese. London: English Universities Press, 1966.
- Essential Kanji. (a sequenced introduction to the Tōyō kanjiToyo kanjiThe tōyō kanji, also known as the Tōyō kanjihyō are the result of a reform of the Kanji characters of Chinese origin in the Japanese written language. They were the kanji declared "official" by the Japanese on November 16, 1946...
1946-1981) - 日英佛教語辞典 Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon.
- 中日英佛教語辞典 Chinese-Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon. (enlarged edition of above)
- 日本人名辞典 - dictionary of variant pronunciations of Japanese personal names and surnames.
- 日本人名地名辞典 - personal names, surnames and place names dictionary