Kunio Yanagita
was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japanese native folkloristics, or ''minzokugaku'', as an academic field in Japan. As a result, he is often considered to be the father of modern Japanese folklore studies.
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1by Risa Nakahara, Shuhei Takemura, Hideki Onodera, Yoshihiro Kasamatsu, Nobuyuki Seto, Naoko Ichio, Takashi Doi, Sadanobu Nakanishi, Masayuki Okamoto, Kunio Yanagida, Masahiro Ueda, Masako Deguchi, Motoharu KondoGet full text
Published 1998-01-01
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