Inō Kanori

Kanori Ino (伊能 嘉矩, Inō Kanori, June 11, 1867 – September 30, 1925), born in Tōno, Iwate, was a Japanese anthropologist and folklorist known for his studies in Taiwanese Aborigines. Ino was the first person who classified the aboriginal tribes into several groups, instead of the traditional classification which imprecisely recognized these aborigines only as "cooked/domesticated" (熟番, jukuban) or "raw/wild" (生蕃, seiban).

In The Island of Formosa (1903), former US Consul to Formosa James W. Davidson presented the first English-language account of the aborigines of the whole island, which was almost entirely based on the comprehensive work collected over several years of study by Ino, the foremost authority on the topic at the time. In his book, Davidson presented Ino's formalization of eight tribes of Taiwanese aborigines: Atayal, Vonum, Tsou, Tsalisen, Paiwan, Puyuma, Ami and Pepo.

Bibliography

• Kanori Ino (2012). 平埔族調查旅行: 伊能嘉矩<台灣通信>選集 [Research trips among the Plains Aborigines: Selections from Inō Kanori's Taiwan diaries] (in Chinese). Translated by Yang Nanjun [in Chinese]. Taipei: Yuan-Liou. ISBN 9789573268932.

See also

• Torii Ryūzō