Miyata Noboru

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Noboru Miyata (宮田登 Miyata Noboru?), (born 1936 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture died February 10, 2000), was a Japanese folklorist, and a close collaborator and friend of the historian Amino Yoshihiko. He graduated from the department of literature at Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University) in 1960, was appointed Assistant Lecturer at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts in 1970, and became full-time professor at Tsukuba University in 1980. On his official retirement he took up a professorship at Kanagawa University. [1]


[edit] Works

He wrote many books and articles on popular religion and the Emperor system

[edit] References

  1. ^ This article is translated from the equivalent article, in the Japanese Wikipedia, as retrieved on June 24, 2007
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