1. The German original of this obituary was published in Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Ostasiens/Hamburg 173–174 (2003), 19–34, and included a list of selected publications of the deceased (25–34). The pronunciation of a few names and terms has been rectified here. I would like to thank Professor Reinhard Emmerich and Dr. Yu Hong for their comments on the original manuscript.

2. Ōsaka: Tōzai gakujutsu kenkyūjo, 1967.

3. Tōkyō: Gakuseisha, 1971; reprinted 2001.

4. Kyōto: Dōhōsha, 1984. A Chinese translation was published by Hangzhou University in 1998.

5. “Tōsen mochiwatashisho no kenkyū no genjō to tenbō” shiryō (teinen taishū kinen kōenkai de haifuku) (Materials on “The Present State and Future Prospects of Research Concerning Scriptures Brought to Japan on Chinese Ships”—Distributed at the Valedictory Lecture on the Occasion of Regular Retirement), Kansai daigaku Tōzai gakujutsu kenkyūjo kiyō 30(1997).

6. (1982), 673; for further information, see below.

7. See Tōyōshi kenkyū 12.3 (1953) and 14.1–2 (1955).

8. See note 14 below.

9. Tōkyō: Sōbunsha, 1982. This contains—partly revised—articles that were originally published between 1953 and 1981.

10. Jianming, Lin et al., Qin Han fazhi shi yanjiu (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin, 1991). For later articles see, inter alia, Jiang Zhenqing in Jiandu yanjiu yicong , ed. Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan Lishi yanjiu suo Zhan-guo Qin Han shi yanjiu shi , 2 (1987). On the other hand, a very critical, polemical response to Ōba's results was formulated by Boyuan, Liao , “Ping Da Tingxiu zhu ‘Han dai guanli de qinwu yu xiujia’ ji qi Zhongyi ben” (Review of Ōba Osamu, “The Duties and Vacation of Officials in the Han Period” and its Chinese Translation”), Hanxue yanjiu 12.2 (1994), 359–78; cf. also Boyuan, Liao, “Han dai guanli xiujia, sushe ruogan wenti zhi bianxi” (Analysis of Some Problems Concerning the Vacation and Lodging of Officials in the Han Period), Chūgoku shigaku 4 (1994), 61–72 .

11. Tōkyō: Gakuseisha, 1979. This was actually a monograph reprint of a series of articles that Ōba had published between 1977 and 1978 in the periodical Nihon bijutsu kōgei under the title “Mokkan no hanashi” (Talking about Wooden Slips).

12. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1984.

13. Kyōto: Dōhōsha, 1992. A Chinese translation of this work has recently been published by Guangxi shifan daxue, Guilin (2001).

14. Ōba et al., ed., Tōkyō: Taishūkan, 1997.

15. Kyoen Kankan sakuin (Index of the Han Slips from the Edsen-gol) (Suita: Kansai University, 1995); Kankan no kisoteki kenkyū (Basic Studies on Han Slips) (Kyōto: Shibunkaku, 1999).

16. See Kankan kenkyū nogenjō to tenbō. Kankan kenkyū kokusai shinpojyūmu ‘92 hōkokusho ‘92 (Present State and Prospects of the Research on Han Slips: Proceedings of the International Symposium for Han Slips Research, 1992) (Tsuita: Kansai University, 1993).

17. Dai Ei toshokan zō Tonkō Kankan (The Han Slips from Dunhuang in the British Library) (Kyōto: Dōhōsha, 1990).

18. Cf. Juyan Han jian: Jiaqu houguan , ed. Gansu sheng wenwu kaogu yanjiu suo et al., 2 vols. (Beijing: Zhonghua, 1994), preface, 4.

19. First in the journal Shisen 26 (1963), then in 1982,1990,1992, etc.

20. Published posthumously in Asia Major 14.2 (2001, published 2004), 119–41.

21. Zō to hō to and Shōwa gannen umaretachi . For both works, see the summary by Ukai Masao in Chūgoku shutsudo shiryō kenkyō 2 (1998), 256–59.