James Main Dixon

James Main Dixon FRSE (1856, Paisley – 27 September 1933) was a Scottish teacher and author, and an important scholar of the Scots language.

[2] He graduated MA from the University of St Andrews in 1879, and was appointed scholar and tutor of philosophy there in the same year.

While Natsume Sōseki was in the 2nd year of his undergraduate program at Tokyo University Dixon requested him to translate Hōjōki.

[1] Among his other contributions in Japan, he is credited with the rediscovery (together with his friend, Alexander Croft Shaw), of former Nakasendō post town of Karuizawa, and its popularization as a summer resort.

His proposers were Robert Flint, John Duns, William Swan, and his brother-in-law Cargill Gilston Knott.