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18-631: Mantarō J. Hashimoto was born in Sawano-mura (沢野村), Nitta District, Gunma (currently Ōta City ). In 1955, he received a BA in Chinese Literature from the University of Tokyo , and began graduate studies, but dropped out of the doctoral course in 1960. He obtained a PhD in linguistics from Ohio State University in 1965, and his dissertation was on the Phonology of ancient Chinese . From 1966 to 1969, he

36-750: A castle town surrounding Akaishi Castle, a stronghold in southern Kōzuke Province controlled by the Yura clan. During the Edo period , it was the center of Isesaki Domain , a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate controlled by the Sakai clan . The area also contained two post towns on the Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō , a subroute to Nikkō Kaidō which connected the Nakasendō directly with Nikkō, bypassing Edo . Isesaki Town

54-539: A population density of 1500 persons per km . The total area of the city is 139.44 square kilometres (53.84 sq mi). Isesaki is located in the northwestern part of the Kantō Plain of southern Gunma Prefecture . It is adjacent to Saitama Prefecture across the Tone River , which runs through the southern part of the city. The distance to the center of the city is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Maebashi City,

72-568: Is frequently subject–object–verb in northern varieties and subject–verb–object in southern ones. Grammatical modifiers contrast between to modifier- modified word order in the north and modified-modifier in the south (Wadley 1996: 102). The polyglot Mantarō Hashimoto was a prolific writer of scholarly publications in Japanese, English, and Chinese (see Tsuji 1988 for details). His subjects included phonology , lexicology , dialectology , Sinitic languages , Hakka Chinese , Taiwanese Hokkien , and

90-545: The Meiji and Taishō periods . Now, however, due to the ubiquity of Western-style clothes, its popularity is decreasing. The automotive equipment and electrical equipment manufacturing company Sanden Corporation is headquartered in Isesaki. Also the city is home to Meisei Electric , a communications and electronics equipment and electric measuring instruments manufacturing company. Large industrial parks have been built in

108-592: The University of Washington . In 2002, the International Association of Chinese Linguistics established the Mantarō J. Hashimoto Award for Chinese Historical Phonology . Hashimoto and his research are still mentioned internationally among East Asian linguists (JCIEA 2011: 80). According to one prominent linguist of Chinese, Hashimoto blazed the trail for two fields of research: the effect that geography has on historical linguistics , and how areal features in

126-518: The varieties of Chinese (previously called " dialects ") reflect prolonged language contact with other language families (Wang 1987: 378). Professor Hashimoto was a leading advocate of studying different areal features to gain information on the historical development of the Chinese language. He analyzed the Chinese varieties in northern and southern China and noticed the further north one traveled in China,

144-574: The Gunma Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of the Gunma 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Isesaki (along with neighboring Kiryū ) was traditionally famous for sericulture since ancient times, with a cloth called "Isesaki Meisen" as one of its most famous products. This cloth has been made since the late 17th century, and became popular during

162-532: The establishment of the municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the area was organized into four towns (Ota, Kizaki, Yabuzukahon, and Ojima) and 9 villages (Kasakake, Kuai, Sawano, Torinosato, Namashina, Watauchi, Kyodo, Serada and Hosen). Isesaki, Gunma Isesaki ( 伊勢崎市 , Isesaki-shi ) is a city located in Gunma Prefecture , Japan . As of 1 September 2020 , the city had an estimated population of 213,303 in 91,789 households, and

180-402: The influence of Altaic languages on Mandarin Chinese . Some English-language examples: Nitta District, Gunma Nitta District ( 新田郡 , Nitta-gun ) was formerly a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture , Japan . Most of the city Ōta and parts of the cities of Midori and Isesaki were formerly part of the district Nitta District was created on December 7, 1878, with

198-653: The more the Chinese varieties began to resemble the Altaic languages that bordered them. Conversely, as one traveled south in China, the varieties began to resemble Austroasiatic languages that bordered them in the south. Hashimoto theorized that the varieties of Chinese had been heavily influenced by the non-Chinese languages on their periphery (Wadley 1996: 99–100). For examples, northern varieties have comparatively fewer tonal distinctions and more polysyllabic words than southern Chinese varieties with complex tonal systems and more monosyllabic words. The syntax of sentence structure

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216-429: The prefectural capital of Gunma, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Takasaki , and about 95 kilometres (59 mi) from central Tokyo . Gunma Prefecture Saitama Prefecture Isesaki has a humid continental climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Isesaki is 14.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1256 mm with September as

234-548: The reorganization of Gunma Prefecture into districts. It included one town (Ōta) and 96 villages, which were formerly part of the tenryō holdings in Kōzuke Province under the direct administration of the Tokugawa shogunate or administered by hatamoto , 12 villages under Maebashi Domain , and one village each under Tatebayshi Domain , Okabe Domain (Musashi Province), and Sano Domain (Shimotsuke Province) and two villages under Nishibata Domain (Mikawa Province). With

252-522: The suburbs, making it one of the leading industrial cities in the northern Kantō region. It is also the location of J-List , a retailer of anime goods, visual novels and related products from Japan. Isesaki has 22 public elementary schools and 12 public middle schools operated by the city government, and five public high schools operated by the Gunma Prefectural Board of Education. Then prefecture also operates three special education schools for

270-442: The villages of Nawa, Toyouke and Miyagō on March 25 of the same year. On January 1, 2005 the towns of Akabori and Sakai , and village of Azuma were incorporated into Isesaki. On April 1, 2007, Isesaki was proclaimed a special city ( tokureishi ) with increased autonomy. Isesaki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 29 members. Isesaki contributes five members to

288-616: The wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.3 °C. On June 26, 2022, the temperature in the city reached 40.2 °C, the highest ever recorded in Japan for the month of June. Per Japanese census data, the population of Isesaki has increased steadily over the past 60 years. Isesaki developed during the Sengoku period as

306-517: Was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii , Osaka City University , and Princeton University . Hashimoto became an assistant professor at the Institute for Asian and African Languages and Cultures, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1970 and Professor in 1973, where he remained for the rest of his life. Mantarō Hashimoto was married to Anne Oi-kan Yue-Hashimoto , who is currently Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Linguistics at

324-515: Was created within Sai District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the modern municipalities system after the Meiji Restoration . Sai District and Nawa District merged to form Sawa District in 1896. It merged with the villages of Uehasu and Moro to form the city of Isesaki on September 13, 1940. On January 10, 1955 the village of Misato was annexed by Isesaki, followed by

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