Kunio Yanagita (Japanese: 柳田 國男, Hepburn: Yanagita Kunio, July 31, 1875 – August 8, 1962) 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.[1]
^Mori, Koichi (1980). Yanagita Kunio: An Interpretive Study. Nanzan University: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.
KunioYanagita (Japanese: 柳田 國男, Hepburn: YanagitaKunio, July 31, 1875 – August 8, 1962) was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist. He began his...
Yanagita (written: 柳田, lit. "willow ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: KunioYanagita (柳田 國男, 1875–1962), Japanese...
dampen any attempts to go around it. Japanese scholar and folklorist KunioYanagita recorded perhaps the most prominent early example of nurikabe and other...
by the folklorist KunioYanagita. Yanagita disliked the word minwa (民話), a coined term directly translated from "folktale" (Yanagita stated that the term...
mountain, or some other remote, desolate place, and left there to die. KunioYanagita concluded that the ubasute folklore comes from India's Buddhist mythology...
biologist KunioYanagita (柳田 國男, 1875–1962), Japanese folklorist and ethnologist Kunio Yonehara (米原 邦夫, born 1941), Japanese water polo player Kunio Yonenaga...
heal and decontaminate an injured person. Folklore scholars such as KunioYanagita and Iwao Hino, who wrote works such as "Youkai Stories" and "Vocabulary...
legends of humans being abducted to the spirit world by kami. Folklorist KunioYanagita recorded several tales of kamikakushi in Tōno Monogatari (遠野物語, Tōno...
collecting a modest wage in this part-time position." The ethnologist KunioYanagita (1875–1962), who first studied Japanese female shamans, differentiated...
Taro Nakayama, "History of Japanese Shrine Maidens KunioYanagita, "Miko Ko", in "Teibon KunioYanagita Shu Vol. 9". Ichiro Hori, A Study of the History...
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. pp. 331–350. ISBN 0910240205. Kunio, Yanagita (1986). The YanagitaKunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Translated by Mayer,...
ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of KunioYanagita, he established an original academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学...
with a Long Name": The YanagitaKunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale (1986) Online edition: Mayer, fanny Haggin; Yanagita, Kunio, eds. (n.d.) [1986]. "234...
quality and authenticity of the products made by factories. According to YanagitaKunio (1969): Japanese have probably always believed in amulets of one kind...
by Japan—and onward, Japanese scholars such as Shinobu Orikuchi and KunioYanagita supported the later discredited ideological viewpoint that they were...
to deduce their forms from the Chinese characters allotted to them". KunioYanagita also emphasized that while the use of character like 虬 may suggest a...
in 1905. In 1908, he became acquainted with KunioYanagita, and Sasaki began to collaborate with Yanagita on collecting the oral traditions and tales...
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