Background
Kichiji Shimmi was born in Nagoya in 1874.
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Kichiji Shimmi was born in Nagoya in 1874.
He graduated from Tokyo University in 1900.
Kichiji Shimmi was appointed professor at Hiroshima Higher Normal School and then Hiroshima University of Science and Literature.
He resigned to become a researcher at Okura Spiritual Culture (now Okurayama Cultural Science) Research Institute in 1940. Meanwhile he studied in Germany and obtained a doctorate, Doctor of Laws, for his thesis titled "Die Geschichte der Buke-Herrschaft in Japan" in 1916.
Among his works are " A Study of Low Ranking Samurai" and "On Teaching of History."