Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: Yanagita Kunio

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Yanagita Kunio

柳田国男
alternative words: Kunio Yanagita, Yanagida Kunio, Kunio Yanagida
keywords: famous person , scholar
related topics: Tengu , Kappa
related web sites: http://www.nmda.or.jp/mellow/fudoki/hyperfudoki/TONOFF/TONO2F/JITEN.HTM , http://www.kamnavi.net/it/itake13.htm , http://tourism.rikkyo.ac.jp/yasujima/kikoubun/nishimura/sakusya.html , http://www.first.tsukuba.ac.jp/~gaku/lifeinmt.html
explanation: Born in 1875 in Hyogo prefecture. A young literary aspirant, he became gradually interested in ethnology when as a bureaucrat of agriculture minister, he visited many isolated villages. There, he has discovered many interesting tales such as Tengu, Kappa, Yukionna (Snow woman). Excellent writer, he left many books but the most famous one is "Tono monogatari", a collection of local folklore around Tono in Iwate prefecture. Died in 1962, he is considered as father of Japanese ethnology.