Background
He was born in 1871 in Kyoto City out of the family of physicians and he went to Tokyo in 1874.
中山 平次郎
He was born in 1871 in Kyoto City out of the family of physicians and he went to Tokyo in 1874.
He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Imperial University and studied in Germany between 1903 and 1906. Nakayama studied the life cycle of Schistosoma japonicum.
During secondary school days, he was interested in archaeology and found remains, possibly, Yayoi pottery. In the same ship was Sunao Tawara, also a pathologist. Nakayama became Professor of Pathology, Kyushu Medical University of Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyushu University at age 35.
Nakayama"s elder brother, Morihiko Nakayama served as Professor of Surgery of the same school.
Nakayama"s students included a Chinese physician Guo Moruo and Hakaru Hashimoto. Hashimoto thanked Nakayama for his guidance in his paper which led to the name of Hashimoto"s thyroiditis.
In 1909, he was accidentally infected with pyogenic bacteria during an autopsy, but fortunately survived. Since then, he completely discontinued pathological studies and started archaeology.
Sunao Tawara, Professor of Pathology, pathologist of another department of Kyushu University undertook pathological studies.
During the (1912-1926), he exclusively wrote in Kohkogakuzasshi (Jpn J Aechaeology), and he was criticized that he monopolized this journal although this journal was open nationwide. In early years of Showa, upon hearing the criticism, he discontinued his studies and he killed his time angling near his house, along the Hakata Bay. After the war, he taught archaeology to Dairoku Harada and who repatriated.
Historic remains around Fukuoka, Fukuoka Nichi Nichi Shimbun, 1912.
The value of Genko Borui(Long stone fort against another invasion by Mongolia) in Fukuoka Nichi NichiShimbun, 1913. (He named the remains Genko Borui.
The remains of the Intermediate Period (corresponding to Yayoi Period), Kokogaku Zasshi, Volume(s) 7, Nr.10,11, Volume(s).8, 1,3, 1917-1918. Kohrokan, the foreign affairs bureau of Japan, is in the Fukuoka Castle.
Kohkogaku Zasshi, 16,1926,17,1927.
(1926-1927).