Bownas, Geoffrey (Personal Name)

Kaizuka, S. Confucius, 1956.

Guardian WWW site, Mar. 14, 2011 (Geoffrey Bownas; b. 9 Feb. 1923, Yeadon, West Yorkshire; d. 17 Feb. 2011; scholar of Japanese studies)

Wikidata, 21 July 2018 (Geoffrey Bownas; British scholar of Japanese; male; date of birth: 9 February 1923; date of death: 17 February 2011; occupation: orientalist)

University of Sheffield finding aid, 21 July 2018 (Bownas recordings: Geoffrey Bownas; born in Yeadon, West Yorkshire in 1923; attended Queen's College until joining the army in 1942 where he was volunteered to learn Japanese and work on breaking Japanese military codes; returned to Oxford in 1948 to learn Chinese, then taught at the University of Kyoto; in 1954 established the department of Japanese Studies at Oxford)