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Saburo Hamada

Japanese sculptor (1892-1973)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ98206183 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saburo Hamada (21 December 1892 – 10 November 1973) was a Japanese sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saburo Hamada” is japanese sculptor (1892-1973). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saburo, Hamada and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1973, 1932—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892-12-21. For this dossier, Saburo, Hamada and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese sculptor (1892-1973)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q98206183. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1973 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saburo Hamada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.