Hirohito Ōta - Wikipedia

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Hirohito Ōta" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Hirohito Ōta" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Hirohito Ōta (太田宏人, ōta hirohito, April 1, 1970 – 2018) was a Japanese freelance writer and Zen monk.

Hirohito was a researcher of Japanese graves and missionary history in South America with a focus on Peru. He was the Japanese editor for the Japanese-language Peru newspaper Peru Shinpō. He graduated from Kokugakuin University with a degree in Shintō studies. He was devoted to the study of Suika Shintō, a branch of Shintō developed by Yamazaki Ansai, religious sociality, and the religious activities of Lafcadio Hearn.

Many of his articles dealt with Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Buddhism, and Peruvians in Japan.