page_title: Yosihiko H. Sinoto
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Yosihiko H. Sinoto / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Malvaceae Hybrid registered by Jill Coryell archives.starbulletin.com/2007/06/03/news/story07.html
context_page_description: Yosihiko H. Sinoto was a Japanese-born American anthropologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for his anthropological expeditions throughout the Pacific, particularly Hawaii and French Polynesia.
context_section_description: Sinoto is honored as a Tahitian chevalier (knight) of the Order of Tahiti Nui in 2000 and the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. He also was awarded the Society of Hawaiian Archaeology’s Naki‘ikeaho Cultural Stewardship Award, the Bishop Museum’s Robert J. Pfeiffer Medal, and the Historic Hawaii Foundation's lifetime achievement award. He was also named a Living Treasure of Hawaii.
  Sinoto's lorikeet (Vini sinotoi), an extinct lorikeet species in the Marquesas Islands, and Sir Yosihiko Sinoto, a hybrid variety of hibiscus, are both named for him.
caption: Hibiscus Sir Yosihiko Sinoto, a hybrid created by Jill Coryell to honor Sinoto, was unveiled in 2007.
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