Title: Tensor-optimized antisymmetrized molecular dynamics for light nuclei with bare interaction Abstract: We propose a new variational theory to investigate the clustering phenomena in nuclei using the bare NN interaction directly, which is named as “tensor-optimized antisymmetrized molecular dynamics” (TOAMD). In TOAMD, the tensor and short-range correlations are multiplied successively to the AMD wave function. We show the numerical results of TOAMD for light nuclei using AV8' potential and dicuss the effect of two correlations.