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| native_name = 網野 善彦
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| birth_place = [[Yamanashi Prefecture]], Japan
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| occupation = Japanese history, folklore
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{{nihongo|'''Yoshihiko Amino'''|網野 善彦|Amino Yoshihiko|January 22, 1928 – February 27, 2004}} was a Japanese [[Marxism|Marxist]] historian and [[public intellectual]], perhaps most singularly known for his novel examination of medieval Japanese history.<ref name = "Johnston">{{cite web|last=Johnston |first=William|url= http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/pdfs/johnston.pdf |title=From Feudal Fishing Villagers to an Archipelago's Peoples: The Historiographical Journey of Amino Yoshihiko |
==Biography==
Born in [[Yamanashi Prefecture]] in 1928, Amino received a high school education in Tokyo.<ref name="Johnston"/> Amino studied under the Marxist historian [[Ishimoda Shō]] (
Amino began his career researching the lifestyles of out-of-the way villagers and marginalized non-urbanized Japanese. His scrupulous examination of primary sources enabled him to reconstruct the outlooks of a variety of non-agrarian peasant communities that shared little in common with the image of "the Japanese" constructed by scholarship and nationalist historians. He arrived at the conclusion that medieval Japan was neither a single culturally
He died of lung cancer on February 27, 2004, aged 76.<ref name="Souyri"/>
==Legacy and
A prolific historian, Amino produced a published output of at least 486 known titles–ranging from newspaper and magazine interviews and articles, book reviews, dialogues, round-table discussions, and other publications to several hundred original articles and over twenty books that were either monographs or essay collections and several multiple-volume series on historical and ethnographic themes.<ref name="Johnston"/> [[Wesleyan University]] Professor of History William Johnston writes that "a complete introduction to the Amino oeuvre would probably require its own book."<ref name="Johnston"/>
Simultaneously, Johnston writes that
<blockquote>Despite his prolific output and stature in Japan, only a handful of papers and only one book (although even that remains unpublished) by Amino have been translated in the
English language. As a leading scholar of early modern Japan once told me, everybody talks about ''Muen, kugai, raku,'' one of Amino’s most important books, but few have read it. For the most part, one could say the same about much of his work.At least two reasons for this arise from Amino’s work itself. One is that much of it has a highly specialized focus on medieval Japan, and another is the context in which his work is read. Many of his essays and monographs focus like a micro laser on the minutiae of landholding patterns, forms of taxation, local power relations, changes in legal codes, the reading and interpretation of documents, and similar specialized topics, and as a consequence even in Japan only specialists find them compelling reading. And while much of his later work is compelling to a large segment of the Japanese reading public, it is less so to a general audience outside Japan. This is especially true for his work on issues concerning Japanese ethnic origins, the tennø, rice cultivation and consumption, geography, and other topics... Finally, although much of his work would certainly be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese history outside Japan, the shortage of translations remains an obstacle.</blockquote>▼
As mentioned above, a very readable account of some of Amino's major findings is now available in English.
▲his work is read. Many of his essays and monographs focus like a micro laser on the minutiae of landholding patterns, forms of taxation, local power relations, changes in legal codes, the reading and interpretation of documents, and similar specialized topics, and as a consequence even in Japan only specialists find them compelling reading. And while much of his later work is compelling to a large segment of the Japanese reading public, it is less so to a general audience outside Japan. This is especially true for his work on issues concerning Japanese ethnic origins, the tennø, rice cultivation and consumption, geography, and other topics... Finally, although much of his work would certainly be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese history outside Japan, the shortage of translations remains an obstacle.</blockquote>
==Selected works==
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===Articles===
*2007: "Medieval Japanese Constructions of Peace and Liberty: ''Muen'', ''Kugai'', and ''Raku''". ''International Journal of Asian Studies'' 4 (1): 3–14.
*2001: "Commerce and finance in the Middle Ages: The beginnings of ‘capitalism’". ''Acta Asiatica'' 81: 1–19.
*1996: "Emperor, Rice, and Commoners". In Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, eds. ''Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern''. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996:
*1995: "Les Japonais et la mer" ("The Japanese and the Sea"). ''Annales'' 50 (2): 235–258. (French)
*1992: "Deconstructing 'Japan'". ''East Asian History'' 3:
*1983: "Some problems concerning the history of popular life in medieval Japan". ''Acta Asiatica'' 44: 77–97.
==References==
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