Egami Namio

Egami Namio
Born	1906 (1906) Japan
Died	2002 (aged 95–96) Japan
Scientific career
Fields	Archaeology

Egami Namio (1906 - 2002) was a Japanese archaeologist, academic, university professor, historian and writer. ^[1]

Biography

He was born in 1906. ^[2]

He served as a professor of the University of Tokyo and Director of Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo from 1978 to 1985. ^[3]

He is most notable for being the proponent of the Horserider Theory. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

He died in 2002. ^[7]

Awards and honours

He was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea) in 1991.

See also

• Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea)

References

1. "Namio Egami". Historic Images of Mongolia. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021.
2. Robert J. Smith; Richard K. Beardsley, eds. (2004). Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics. Routledge. p. 11. ISBN   978-0-415-33039-8.
3. "Namio Egami". yashiro.itatti.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024.
4. Cartwright, Mark (July 19, 2017). "The Horse-rider Theory in Ancient Japan". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
5. Barnes, Gina (1988). Protohistoric Yamato: Archaeology of the First Japanese State. Ann Arbor, MI: U OF M CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES. doi:10.3998/mpub.18696. ISBN   978-0-915703-11-1 . Retrieved January 27, 2026.
6. Rhee, Song-nai; Aikens, C. Melvin; Barnes, Gina L. (September 9, 2021). Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC–AD 600. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. doi:10.2307/j.ctv20rsk33. ISBN   978-1-78969-967-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2026.
7. Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma (2008). Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia. Brill. p. 97. ISBN   978-90-474-4323-0.

External links

• "The Namio Egami Collection". Archived from the original on March 19, 2025.
• "Namio Egami". Archived from the original on July 18, 2024.
• "Namio Egami". Archived from the original on August 18, 2024.