Kenichi Tamoto

At Tsuru University I worked on traditionalist's grammar under Professor Yasuhisa Mikami. I wrote graduation thesis under the title "A study of Adverbials". At Waseda University (Special Course for English and English literature) I began to be interested in the history of the English language. My experence as a teacher of English began at Kashiwa Nittai Senior High School in Chiba Pref. Studentes there welcomed me as a teacher of Sho-rin-ji Kempo rather than a teacher of English. After five years' teaching at the senior high school I moved to Takeno-dai Senior High School, which is one of Tokyo Municipal Senior High Schools, and at the same time I was to study at the graduate course of Sophia University. My supervisor was Professor Takero Oiji, and started to make research of relative constructions in Chaucer's works. I wrote MA thesis on Chaucer's relative construction. It was a great shock to me that Professor Oiji died before submission of my MA thesis. I am cordially grateful to Proffesor Shoichi Watanabe, who kindly allowed me to work under his supervision. It took me four years to fish the MA course. After five years' stay (as a teacher of English and as a student) I was welcomed to Serei Wimen's Junior College as a full time lecturer of the English Department. It was only four years' teaching at the junior college, but it seems to me it was great opportunity to learn about Christianity. I returned southwards to Aichi Prefecture. I was luckily given the position of a full time lecturer at Aichi University. I am most grateful to Aichi University for its generosity in giving me the opportunity of studying at Oxford University for a total period of three years. I used to study Chaucer, but at Oxford I changed my field. Anglo-Saxon studies attracted me. Professor Malcolm Godden kindly allowed me to work under his supervision. I learned much about Anglo-Saxon studies from Professor Godden. It was on this occasion that I proceeded with my doctoral dissertation, which I finished in 2000 and submitted it to Sophia University, and it was accepted. It was a lexical study of the Old English words. While I as working on my dissertation, I happened to be interested in a very famous manuscript, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library. as soon as I finished my doctoral dissertation, I got to work on publication of the printed edition of the MS, the shelf mark of which is MS auctarium D.2.19, and it is usually called "the Macregol Gospels" or "the Rushwor Gospels". Thanks to kind help of Dr. Barker-Benfield and Dr Kaufmann, it came out on the 15th of May, 2013 from John Benjamins pub. co. I am now working on its glossary. I am also interested in Japanese culture, literature, history, especially "Kojiki", "Heike Monogatari", ''Eiga Monogatari", "Okagami", etc. I would like to edit an English explanation of old Japanese literature and culture. I retired from Aichi University on 31 March, 2020. 47 years had passed since I started my career as a full-time teacher of English.