Biography:Kyotoku Fuji
Kyôtoku Fuji | |
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藤 教篤 | |
| Died | March 1923 |
| Education | College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Tokyo Imperial University |
Kyôtoku Fuji (Japanese: 藤 教篤, ? – 1923) was a Japanese physicist at Imperial University, Tokyo, known for research with Shoji Nishikawa on high-voltage electrical equipment and constant high potentials.
Biography
Kyôtoku Fuji was born in Osaka Prefecture. He became a lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University's College of Science in 1908.[1]
Fuji published primarily on experimental physics instrumentation and mathematical physics, and was known for his high-voltage electrical equipment, radioactivity in petroleum, and early X-ray instrumentation. His most widely referenced paper covers the design of high-voltage electrical equipment for early atomic and X-ray physics research.[2]
Kyôtoku Fuji also documented clairvoyance experiments known as "The Seringan Affair" (Senrigan Jikken).[3] Fuji participated in experiments in Marugame, and was quoted as a skeptic: "Even before I went to Marugame to conduct the experiment, I had doubts about Mrs. Ikuko's so-called thoughtography... In short, from what I have investigated, there are many questionable points about Mrs. Ikuko's thoughtography, and there is plenty of reason to suspect that she is using magic tricks."[1][4]
Kyôtoku Fuji was named a 1921 fellow of the American Physical Society.[5]
Fuji was promoted to professor in March 1923, shortly before his death later that month.[1]
Publications
- Kyôtoku Fuji (1914). [ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ptmps1907/7/20/7_20_369/_pdf "Researches on the Electric Discharge of the Isolated Electric Organ of Astrape (Japanese Electric Ray) by Means of an Oscillograph"]. Tokyo Sugaku-Buturigakkwai Kizi Dai 2 Ki 7 (20): 369–397_3. doi:10.11429/ptmps1907.7.20_369. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ptmps1907/7/20/7_20_369/_pdf.
- Kyôtoku Fuji (1915). "Radium Emanation in Petroleum from Nisiyama Oil Field in the Province of Etigo". Proceedings of the Tokyo Mathematico-Physical Society. 2nd Series 8 (1): 13–14. doi:10.11429/ptmps1907.8.1_13. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ptmps1907/8/1/8_1_13/_pdf/-char/en.
- Kyôtoku Fuji; Shoji Nishikawa (1916). "Outfits for Constant High Potentials to be installed in The Physical Institute, University of Tôkyô". Tokyo Sugaku-Buturigakkwai Kizi Dai 2 Ki 8 (17): 509–512. doi:10.11429/ptmps1907.8.17_509. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ptmps1907/8/17/8_17_509/_pdf.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The scholars’ views" (in en). https://www.ndl.go.jp/kaleido/entry/13/opinion.html.
- ↑ Kyôtoku Fuji; Shoji Nishikawa (1916). "Outfits for Constant High Potentials to be installed in The Physical Institute, University of Tôkyô". Tokyo Sugaku-Buturigakkwai Kizi Dai 2 Ki 8 (17): 509–512. doi:10.11429/ptmps1907.8.17_509. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ptmps1907/8/17/8_17_509/_article/-char/ja/.
- ↑ Kristen Lacefield (1 April 2013). The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in the Ring. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 34, 37–. ISBN 9781409476191. https://books.google.com/books?id=_qEQNgGCktYC&pg=PA37. "...Fukurai began to study another psychic... who possessed a talent he called "nenagraphy" or simply nensha. Fukurai coined this term from the Japanese nen, meaning "thought" or "idea," and the Greek graphein, meaning "writing" or "representation," intending it to refer to the power of inscribing images directly onto photographic plates by sheer force of will. This phenomenon was known among western psychical researchers as "psychography" or "thoughtography," a practice that first emerged with the discovery of so-called "N-rays" around the turn of the century."
- ↑ Kurimoto Tōmei et al. (1911). "If clairvoyance develops, it will destroy the very foundations of society". Jitsugyo Shonen (Business Boy) 5 (2). https://www.ndl.go.jp/kaleido/entry/13/viewer.html#10. Retrieved 2026-08-14.
- ↑ "APS Fellows archive" (in en). https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship?q=fuji&y=1921&af=true.
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