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was a Japanese scholar, known particularly for his work on the ''Omoro sōshi'', a written collection of songs and poems which constitute an oral history of Okinawa and the Ryūkyū Kingdom. Nakahara was born in Nakazato ''magiri'', on Kumejima. He attended the Okinawa Normal School, and Hiroshima Normal High School, before going on to teach at various schools in Tokyo, Shizuoka prefecture, and elsewhere.〔"Nakahara Zenchū." ''Okinawa rekishi jinmei jiten'' (沖縄歴史人名事典, "Encyclopedia of People in Okinawan History"). Naha: Okinawa Bunka-sha, 2002. p56.〕 He first began research into Okinawan history around the age of 50. After the end of World War II, he researched the native Ryukyuan religion, and produced a paper which drew great praise from Yanagita Kunio, widely regarded today as the father of Japanese ethnology. He would go on to produce a number more papers on topics relating to Okinawan history, ''omoro'', and ethnology, as well as a middle school textbook entitled .〔 ==Selected works== * * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zenchū Nakahara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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