Kinji Imanishi

Kinji Imanishi (今西 錦司, Imanishi Kinji, January 6, 1902 – June 15, 1992) was a Japanese ecologist and anthropologist. He was the founder of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, and together with Junichiro Itani is considered one of the founders of Japanese primatology.

Honours

From the Japanese Wikipedia

• Asahi Prize (1968)
• Person of Cultural Merit (3 November 1972)
• Order of Culture (3 November 1979)
• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (15 June 1992; posthumous) (Second Class: 29 April 1972)

Publications

• Imanishi, Kinji (1941): Seibutsu no Sekai (生物の世界). Kōbundō
  • Imanishi, Kinji (2002) The World of Living Things ISBN 0-7007-1632-7

References

• The Kinji Imanishi Digital Archive

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