Jūji Tanabe was a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 literature scholar, teacher, and mountain climber.

Tanabe was born in Toyama City. He majored in English literature

English literature

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 at Tokyo Imperial University

University of Tokyo

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, specializing in William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

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. He lectured at Toyo University

Toyo University

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 and Hosei University

Hosei University

is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha , established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō . This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily influenced by the French legal tradition...

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He climbed the Japanese Alps

Japanese Alps

The is a series of mountain ranges in Japan that bisect the main island of Honshū. The name was coined by William Gowland, the "Father of Japanese Archaeology," and later popularized by Reverend Walter Weston , an English missionary for whom a memorial plaque is located at Kamikochi, a tourist...

 and Okuchichibu Mountains

Okuchichibu Mountains

or the , is a mountainous district in the Kantō region and Kōshin'etsu region, Japan. It covers the western part of Tokyo, the western part of Saitama Prefecture, the southwestern part of Gunma Prefecture, the southeastern part of Nagano Prefecture, the northern part of Yamanashi Prefecture. Oku ...

. He wrote a book "The Japanese Alps and a pilgrimage to Chichibu

Chichibu

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" (日本アルプスと秩父巡礼 Nippon Alps to Chichibu junrei) in 1919. This book was republished as "Mountains and ravines" (山と渓谷 yama to keikoku) in 1930.

Tanabe and his friend Kogure Ritarō (1873 - 1944)'s accounts of the Okuchichibu Mountains have become influential. There is a monument to them at the foot of the Mt. Kimpu (金峰山, Kinpu-san) (2599 m).