Naitō Konan

Naitō Torajirō (Japanese: 内藤 虎次郎, August 27, 1866 – June 26, 1934), commonly known as Naitō Konan (内藤 湖南), was a Japanese historian and Sinologist.

He was the founder of the Kyoto School of historiography, and along with Shiratori Kurakichi (the founder of the Tokyo School), was one of the leading Japanese historians of East Asia in the early twentieth century.

Naitō's most influential contribution to historiography was the recognition and analysis of the "Tang-Song transition" as an important watershed.

He argued that the social, political, demographic and economic changes that occurred between the mid-Tang dynasty and early Song dynasty represented the transition between the medieval (chūsei) and early modern (kinsei) periods of Chinese history.

In Japanese history, Naitō argued that Yamataikoku was located in Kyūshū rather than in Kinki.