Dr.Hiroyike Chikulou is a scholar who was active in academia between the Meiji - Taisho period. He collated a text named 倭漢比較律 疏 and an edition of 唐六典 by Konoe Yiehiro, and published a series of monographs such as 東洋法制史序論 and 東洋法制史本論, which were highly praised at that time. Dr. Hiroyike is one of pioneers in the field of the oriental legal history, and develops three manners of his own on the research, which are concentrating on explaining words and phrases, possessing the consciousness of comparative history of law and holding the intent to cope with the current situation. Besides, Dr. Hiroyike emphasized that there were differences between China and Japan, and the Japanese culture had the superiority to the Chinese, which was a common view of some Japanese scholars at that time.
Hiroyike Chikulou, Oriental legal history, View on Japanese culture supremacy
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