was a Japanese folklorist, and a close collaborator and friend of the historian Amino Yoshihiko.
Biography He graduated from the department of literature at Tokyo University of Education (now University of Tsukuba) in 1960. He was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer at the Tokyo Gakugei University in 1970, and became full-time professor at the University of Tsukuba in 1980. On his official retirement he took up a professorship at Kanagawa University.This article is translated from the equivalent article, in the Japanese Wikipedia, as retrieved on June 24, 2007
Works He wrote many books and articles on popular religion and the Emperor system.
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