Amino Yoshihiko

• Japanese: 網野善彦 (Amino Yoshihiko)

Amino Yoshihiko is a historian of medieval Japan, known for his arguments for broad-ranging reassessments of our understandings of, and approaches to, Japanese history.

He graduated from Tokyo University in 1950.

Publications

• Higashi to nishi no kataru Nihon no rekishi 東と西の語る日本の歴史 ("Japanese History Speaking of East and West"). Tokyo: Soshiete, 1982.
• Nihon chûsei no hinôgyômin to tennô 日本中世の非農業民と天皇 ("Non-Agricultural Peoples of Medieval Japan and the Emperor"). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1984.
• Ikei no ôken 異型の王権 ("A Different Royal Prerogative"). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1986.
• Nihonron no shiza: rettô no shakai to kokka 日本の視座：列島の社会と国家 ("Perspectives on Japan Theory: Societies and States of the Archipelago"). Tokyo: Shôgakukan, 1990.
• Nihon no rekishi o yominaosu 日本の歴史を読み直す ("Reconsidering Japanese History"). Tokyo: Chikuma, 1991.
• Umi to rettô no chûsei 海と列島の中世 ("The Middle Ages of Sea and Archipelago"). Tokyo: Nihon Editor School Shuppansha, 1992.
• (with Mori Kôichi). Uma, fune, jômin: tôzai kôryû no Nihon rettôshi 馬、船、常民：東西交流の日本列島史 ("Horses, Ships, Commoners: The History of the Japanese Archipelago and its East-West Communications"). Tokyo: Kawai Shuppan, 1992.
• (Alan Christy, trans.) Rethinking Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2012.

References

• Amino Yoshihiko. "Deconstructing 'Japan'." East Asian History 3 (1992), 121.