Yanagita (written: 柳田, lit. "willow ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Kunio Yanagita (柳田 國男, 1875–1962), Japanese...
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...
Yuki Yanagita (柳田 悠岐, Yanagita Yūki, born October 9, 1988 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan), nicknamed "Gita (ギータ)", is a Japanese professional baseball...
Hiroki Yanagita (born 25 July 2003) is a Japanese sprinter. He ran the anchor leg for the Japanese 4x100m relay team that finished runner-up at the World...
Yanagita Station (柳田駅, Yanagita-eki) is a railway station on the Ōu Main Line in the city of Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by JR East. Yanagita...
Miyuki Yanagita (柳田 美幸, Yanagita Miyuki, born April 11, 1981) is a former Japanese football player. She played for Japan national team. Yanagita was born...
the folklorist Kunio Yanagita. 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. Kunio Yanagita concluded that the ubasute folklore comes from India's Buddhist mythology...
dampen any attempts to go around it. Japanese scholar and folklorist Kunio Yanagita recorded perhaps the most prominent early example of nurikabe and other...
deduce their forms from the Chinese characters allotted to them". Kunio Yanagita also emphasized that while the use of character like 虬 may suggest a snake-like...
quality and authenticity of the products made by factories. According to Yanagita Kunio (1969): Japanese have probably always believed in amulets of one...
Nakayama, "History of Japanese Shrine Maidens Kunio Yanagita, "Miko Ko", in "Teibon Kunio Yanagita Shu Vol. 9". Ichiro Hori, A Study of the History of...
exotic taste are less specific than a quite comprehensive travel log by Yanagita Kunio, who was inspired by Sasamori's work and finally did his own research...
quarterly 223 (2013-06). pp. 35–55. (In Japanese) Yanagita, Kunio; Translated by Fanny Hagin Meyer (1986). Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Indiana...
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. pp. 331–350. ISBN 0910240205. Kunio, Yanagita (1986). The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Translated by Mayer,...
heal and decontaminate an injured person. Folklore scholars such as Kunio Yanagita and Iwao Hino, who wrote works such as "Youkai Stories" and "Vocabulary...
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