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Reiichi Gamō (蒲生礼一) was Japan's first professor of Urdu. Along with his pupil Takeshi Suzuki, he came to be known in Pakistan as Japan's "Baba-i-Urdu" for his work in the promotion of the language.

Career
Gamō studied at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies learned Urdu from Indian teachers, and also became well-versed in Persian. He graduated in 1923, and became a lecturer there in 1925. He was promoted to the rank of professor in 1934. Along with Eizō Sawa of the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, he was the most famous promoter of Hindi-Urdu teaching in Japan.

Works
Gamō published one of Japan's earliest Urdu textbooks, which remained widely used for decades. He also wrote various books about Islam, Iran, and Pakistan.
 * . A translation of Mir Amman's Urdu version of The Tale of the Four Dervishes.