was a Japanese folklorist, and a close collaborator and friend of the

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

Amino Yoshihiko.

Biography

He graduated from the department of literature at Tokyo University of Education (now

University of Tsukuba is a public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Project. The university has 28 colle ...

) in 1960. He was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer at the

Tokyo Gakugei University Tokyo Gakugei University (東京学芸大学, ''Tōkyō gakugei daigaku'') is a national university in Koganei, Tokyo. Founded in 1873, it was chartered as a university in 1949. It is also known as ''Gakudai'' (学大) and TGU, for short. In ad ...

in 1970, and became full-time professor at the

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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyata, Noboru 1936 births University of Tsukuba alumni Tokyo Gakugei University faculty Academic staff of Kanagawa University Academic staff of the University of Tsukuba 2000 deaths Japanese folklore People from Yokohama