コンゴ民主居和国（旧ザイール）イトゥリの森に暮らすムブティの子供達とともに。
関心分野
生態人類学，民族学, 地域研究
研究テーマ
中央アフリカの狩猟採集民と，農耕民の社会を対象とした人類学的・民族学的調査資料をもとに，多様な自然観や自然利用，およびそれらの共存関係や変容について考察している。また，人類学的な立場から自然の保護やその持続的利用について検討している。
研究業績
著書
1982 『森の狩猟民―ムブティ・ピグミーの生活』（単著）、人文書院、1-255頁。
1987 『人類の起源と進化』（黒田末寿、片山一道と共著）、有斐閣、1-272頁。
1995 『生態人類学を学ぶ人のために』（大塚柳太郎、秋道智弥と共編著）、世界思想社、 1-257頁。
1996 『続・自然社会の人類学』（田中二郎、掛谷誠、太田至と共編著）、アカデミア出版 会、1-441頁。</li>
1998 Man and Nature in Central African Forests (Supplementary Issue of African Study Monographs, No.25), pp.1-205 (ed. Mitsuo Ichikawa).
2001 African Hunter-gatherers: Persisting Cultures and Contemporary Problems (Supplementary Issue of African Study Monographs, No. 26), pp.1-280 (eds. J. Tanaka, M.Ichikawa and D. Kimura).
2001 『森と人の共存世界』（市川光雄・佐藤弘明共編著）、京都大学出版会、1-258頁
2003 Recent Advances in Central African Hunter-gatherer Studies (Supplementary issue of African Study Monographs, no.28, pp.1-157 (eds. Ichikawa, M. and D. Kimura).
論文など
欧文
1978 The Residential Groups of the Mbuti Pygmies. Senri Ethnological Studies, No.1, 131-188.
1980 The Utilization of Wild Food Plants by the Suiei Dorobo in Northern Kenya. Journal of Anthropological Society of Japan, Vol.88(1): 25-48.
1981 Ecological and Sociological Importance of Honey to the Mbuti Net hunters, Eastern Zaire. African Study Monographs, Vol.1: 55-68.
1983 La struttura sociale dei pigmei BaMbuti, Scienza & Tecnica, 83: 226-228.
1983 An Examination of the Hunting-dependent Life of the Mbuti Pygmies, Eastern Zaire, African Study Monographs, Vol. 4: 55-76.
1985 A Comparison of Fishing Strategies in the Bangweulu Swamps, African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 4: 25-48.
1986 Ecological Bases of Symbiosis, Territoriality and Intraband cooperation among the Mbuti Pygmies, SUGIA (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika), Vol. 7 (1): 161-188.
1987 Food Restrictions of the Mbuti Pygmies, Eastern Zaire. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue、No.6: 97-121.
1987 A Preliminary Report on the Ethnobotany of the Suiei Dorobo in Northern Kenya. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 7: 1-52.
1987 Wild Plant Utilization of the Balese and the Efe of the Ituri Forest, the Republic of Zaire. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 8: 1-78 (Terashima, H., M. Ichikawa and M. Sawada）.
1991 The Impact of Cash and Commoditization on the Life of the Mbuti Hunter-gatherers, Eastern Zaire. Senri Ethnological Studies, 30:135-162.
1991 AFlora: Catalog of Useful Plants of Tropical Africa. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, No.16:1-195（Terashima, H., M. Ichikawa and I. Ohta）.
1992 Comment on "Beyond the Original Affluent Society". Current Anthropology, Vol.33(1):
1992 Traditional Use of Tropical Rainforest by the Mbuti Hunter-gatherers in Zaire. Topics in Primatology, University of Tokyo Press, p.305-317.
1993 Diversity and selectivity in the food of the Mbuti hunter-gatherers in Zaire. Hladik et al (eds.), Tropical Forest: People and Food. Paris, Parthenon Publishing (UNESCO-MAB Series): 487-495.
1996 Cultural Diversity in the Use of plants by Mbuti Hunter-gatherers in Northeastern Zaire: An Ethnobotanical Approach. Kent, S. (ed.), Cultual Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers, Cambridge University Press: 276-293（M. Ichikawa and H. Terashima）.
1996 Co-existence of Man and Nature in the African Rain Forest. Fukui and Ellen (eds.), Redefining Nature: Ecology. Culture and Domestication, Berg Publishers: 467-492.
1996 D?t?rminismes ?cologique et culturels des choix alimentaires des chasseurs-cuilleurs Mbuti du Za?re. Hladik, C.M., A. Hladik, H. Pagezy, O.F.Linares et A. Froment (eds.), L'Alimentation en Forets Tropicales, UNESCO-MAB: 501-511.
1998 The birds as indicators of the invisible world: Ethno-ornithology of the Mbuti hunter-gatherers. In: Man and Nature in Central African Forests (Supplementary Issue of African Study Monographs): 105-121.
1999 Mbuti Pygmies in Congo. Lee, R. B. and R. Daly (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers, Cambridge University Press:510-514.
1999 Interactive process of man and nature in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Approach from Historical Ecology. In, Biesbrouck, Elders and Rossel (eds.), Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-gatherers in Multidisciplinary Perspective, University of Leiden Press, pp.141-152.
1999 Stable exchange in an unstable national economy. Paper read at the Seminar on Anthropological Theory. Department of Anthropology, LSE (University of London), 19th November.
1999 Problems in the study of hunter-gatherer societies in the central African forests. Paper presented at the "African Seminar," University of Edinburgh, 17th November.
1999 Comment on 'Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility', by Douglas H. & B. Hewlett." Current Anthropology, Vol.40(4): 517-518.
2000 "Interest in the Present" in the Nationwide Monetary Economy: The Case of Mbuti Hunters in Zaire. In, Schweitzer, P., M. Biesele and R. K. Hitchcock (eds.), Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World. Berghahn, Oxford, pp.263-274.
2001 Persisting cultures and contemporary problems among African hunter-gatherers. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, No. 26, pp.1-8 (Mitsuo Ichikawa and Jiro Tanaka).
2001 The forest world as circulation system: The impact of Mbuti habitation and subsistence activities on the forest environment", African Study Monographs, supplementary issue, no.26, pp.157-168.
2001 AFlora: A Database of Traditional Plant Use in Africa. Systematics and Geography of Plants, 71:749-756 (Mitsuo Ichikawa, Daiji Kimura and Hideaki Terashima).
2002 Comment on'The vines of complexity: Egalitarian structures and the institutionalization of inequality among the Enga,'by Polly Wiessner. Current Anthropology, Vol.43(2): 258-259.
2003 Comparative Ethnobotany of the Mbuti and Efe Hunter-gatherers in the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo. African Study Monographs, vol.1/2:1-168 (Terashima, H. and M. Ichikawa).
2003 Recent Advances in Central African Hunter-gatherer Studies. African Study Monographs, supplementary issue, no.28:1-6 (Ichikawa, M. and D. Kimura).
2004 The Japanese Tradition of Central African Hunter-gatherer Studies: with Comparative Observation on the French and American Traditions. In Alan Barnard ed., Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 103-114.
2004 Benefit of Foresight: From evolutionary interest to global environmental problems. Before Farming, 2004(4):Article 7
2005 Food Sharing and Ownership among the Central African Hunter-gatherers: An Evolutionary Perspective. In Widlok, T. and W. Tadasse eds., Property and Equality, Oxford: Berghahn, 151-164. in press
2003 Animal Food Avoidance among Central African Hunter-gatherers. Paper read at International Colloquium on Animal Symbolism, held at LACITO, Paris, 12-14 November, （also in press）
2005 Ichikawa, M., The History and Current Situation of Anthropological Studies on Africa in Japan. The African Anthropologist (Pan African Anthroplogical Association), Vol. 12(2).