Yamatologist
Yamatologist noun: synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).
Noun
Yamatologist (plural Yamatologists)
- Synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).
- The most learned amongst the Yamatologists are still dependant^([sic]) upon Japanese for the information that furnishes the basis of all contributions; and why not have the authorities at the meetings, with interpreters for the benefit of those who have not acquired the necessary knowledge of...1898 January 5, C[harles] Pfoundes, “The “Social Evil.”: To the Editor of the “Japan Mail.””, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XXIX...
- [Epigraph:] Giuseppe Morichini, the late Italian Yamatologist, was preparing for publication in our East and West a long review on the work by Nakamura Hajime «Indo Tetsugaku Shisô» […]1960 March, Giuseppe Morichini, “Review of Early Vedānta Philosophy”, in East and West, volume 11, number 1, page 33
- Synonyms:
- Japanologist
Examples of Yamatologist in a sentence
- For an appropriate translation of this term [baka], I refer to one of the leading Yamatologists in Italy, Professor Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice at Ca’ Foscari.1997, Antonio Marazzi, “If Japanese Are Samurai, Italians are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes”, in Beverly Allen, Mary Russo...
- We have tried to reconstruct the “umbrella cultural themes” with the help of a yamatologist, who introduced us to the issue of kata or shikata.2020, Maria G. Bartolini Bussi et al., “Mathematics Teachers’ Cultural Beliefs: The Case of Lesson Study” (chapter 5), in Despina Potari...
Synonyms of Yamatologist
Forms of Yamatologist
| plural | Yamatologists |
|---|
Origin of Yamatologist
Calque of Italian yamatologo (“Japanologist”) when used by Italian speakers, from Yamato + -logist otherwise.
Questions about Yamatologist
- What does Yamatologist mean?
- Yamatologist means synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).
- How do you use Yamatologist in a sentence?
- For an appropriate translation of this term [baka], I refer to one of the leading Yamatologists in Italy, Professor Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice at Ca’ Foscari.
- What part of speech is Yamatologist?
- Yamatologist is a noun.
- What is the plural of Yamatologist?
- The plural of Yamatologist is Yamatologists.
Words near Yamatologist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Yamatologist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Yamatologist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yamatologist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.