Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90.

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Mayao Umesao (C), a potter and the second son of the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao, talks to visitors at the opening of the gallery "rondokreanto" in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. He turned his father's house, once called "Umesao Salon," into the gallery. (Kyoto) ==Kyodo

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Photos taken by the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao are displayed at his house, once called "Umesao Salon," in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. His son turned the two-story wooden house into a gallery. Umesao, who died in 2010 at age 90, purchased the house in 1949 and lived there until he became the first director general of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka Prefecture in 1974. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

This is a portrait of the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao. His house in Kyoto, once called "Umesao Salon" because many students and researchers used to gather there every Friday, opened as the gallery "rondokreanto" in August 2015. (Kyoto) ==Kyodo

Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90. (Kyodo)