Yosihiko H. Sinoto

Yosihiko H. Sinoto (September 3, 1924 – October 4, 2017) was a Japanese-born American anthropologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.

After World War II ended, he went to study at the University of California, but was recruited to be anthropologist Kenneth Emory's research assistant before he got there.

[6] [7] On the island of Huahine, where he worked for 40 years, he helped to restore and preserve the prehistoric village of Maeva with its temple ruins, or marae.

[8] Sinoto's further expeditions led him to the Society Islands, Marquesas, Tuamotus and others, where he studied the settlements, artifacts, migration patterns and Polynesian cultural ties.

[2][9] Though he officially retired in 2013, Sinoto continued to work until his death on October 4, 2017.

Hibiscus Sir Yosihiko Sinoto, a hybrid created by Jill Coryell to honor Sinoto, was unveiled in 2007.