He was a graduate from the philosophical faculty of Kyoto University in 1948.
Umehara taught philosophy at Ritsumeikan University and was
subsequently appointed president of the Kyoto City University of Arts.
Umehara was noted for his prolific essays on Japanese culture, in
which he has ventured to refound the discipline of Japanese studies
along more Japanocentric lines, especially in his book Nihongaku
kotohajime (日本学事始) written in 1972 in collaboration with
Shunpei Ueyama.
Other than is many works in academic essays on numerous aspects of
Japanese culture he has also composed theatrical works on figures as
varied as Yamato Takeru and Gilgamesh.
In 2008,
he started to publish modernized version of Noh theatre
Takeshi Umehara passed away at 93 years old.
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