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Kousei Amano

Japanese actor

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3274687 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hironari Amano (天野 浩成, Amano Hironari; born April 9, 1978 in Kasugai, Aichi) is a Japanese actor. In 2008 he changed his name to Kousei Amano (天野 浩成, Amano Kōsei), maintaining the kanji in his name. In 2013, he married actress Akiko Hinagata.

Filmography

Television

Films

Stage

Video games

Music videos

Discography

Eikyu Hozon Ban: Kamen Rider Zen Shudaika Shu (2007)

Another (2006)

A day in the life (2005)

DEPARTURE (2005)

TV Size!

Editorial summary

“Kousei Amano” enters the record as japanese actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kousei, Amano and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2008, 2013, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-04-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kousei, Amano and Japanese.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kousei Amano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kousei, Amano and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3274687. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2008, 2013 and 2007.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kousei Amano”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kousei Amano primary sources, Kousei Amano archive and Kousei research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kousei Amano”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kousei Amano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.