P. Y. Saeki

(Peter) Yoshiro Saeki (1871-1965), was a Japanese scholar of religion and law, who was consulted on the rebuilding of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast of August 6, 1945. He advised rebuilding the city as a relatively small and well-planned space. In 1962 he received an honorary doctorate from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Bibliography

A partial bibliography of his works as listed in the Library of Congress would include:

• Keikyo hibun kenkyu. The Nestorian monument in China, (Place: Publisher, era 44 [1911]).

• The Nestorian Monument in China, (London: SPCK, 1916, reprinted 1928).

• The luminous religion, a study of Nestorian Christianity in China, with a translation of the inscription upon the Nestorian tablet, with Mrs. C. E. Couling, (London: Carey press, 1925).

• Roma ho koyo, 1927.

• Keikyo no kenkyu, (Tokyo: Toho Bunka Gakuin Tokyo Kenkyujo-- Hatsubaijo Bunkyudo Shoten, Showa 10 [1935]; reprinted Tokyo: Meicho Fukyukai, Showa 53 [1978 & 1980].

• Articles in the Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1932 to 1936.

• Shina Kirisutokyo no kenkyu, (Place: Publisher, Showa 18-24 [1943-49]) 4 vols.

• Nestorian Documents and Relics in China, (Tokyo: Toho bunkwa gakuin: The Academy of oriental culture, 1937; 2nd edition, Tokyo: Maruzen, 1951). An English language abridgement of Keikyo no kenkyu.

• Catalogue of the Nestorian literature and relics, (Tokyo: Maruzen,1950).

• Chūgoku ni okeru Keikyo suibo no rekishi, (Kyoto: Habado Enkei Doshisha Toho Bunka Koza Iinkai, Showa 30 [1955]).

• Roma-teikoku Kirisutokyo hogo kitei no kenkyu. (Place: Publisher, 1957).

• Saeki Yoshiro iko narabini den, (Place: Publisher, Showa 45 [1970]).

Sources

• Article on the Planning for Hiroshima's reconstruction.

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Name	Saeki, Yoshihiro
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Date of birth	1871
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Date of death	1965
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