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Forests as seen by Yanagita Kunio: his contribution to a contemporary ecological idea.(Author Abstract)
A forest is only a part of the landscape if seen from the distance. However, it is the important place where people living nearby pick and gather seasonal wild plants or mushrooms. It provides wood that feeds the forestry business. In a forest we generally experience something that leads us to an original memory of our childhood home.
As a comprehensive thinker Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), the distinguished Japanese folklorist, regards the many facets of a forest as a composite of people's customs, legends, way of life, etc., all of which reflect his interests: a poet when he was young, a passionate innovator in rural agricultural districts, and, as an old man, a ...
- The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and his Times.
- Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies Toelken, Barre October 1, 1995 700+ words
Although Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) remains well-known and often-read in Japan, this pioneer in ethnography has not come fully to the attention...
- The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times.
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Hendry, Joy March 1, 1995 700+ words
...effort has been made to make the work accessible to those without a background knowledge of Japanese issues. The work of Yanagita Kunio (1872-1962), well known in intellectual circles in Japan and currently of some renewed interest, has been very carefully...
- Kunio Yanagita. The Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Asian Ethnology Eubanks, Charlotte March 22, 2009 700+ words
...revised and updated translation of Yanagita Kunio's seminal Tono Monogatari...archetypal--methodologies. Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) is famous as...screams that pierce the dark forests. In short, the stories are...
- Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. (Book...
- Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies Schnell, Scott April 1, 2002 700+ words
...folk studies that are dominated by Yanagita Kunio. While Figal gives ample attention...confiscate and sell the communally-held forests that the smaller shrines had encompassed. Minakata recognized these forests not only as sacred groves dedicated...
- Discourses of the vanishing: modernity, phantasm, Japan.
- Magazine article from: Ethnologies January 1, 1999 700+ words
...of interest in folklore studies and Yanagita Kunio. "It was Yanagita's work that first...subject of Chapter Three, a treatment of Yanagita Kunio's Tono monogatari (The Tales of...the Tono monogatari, also considered Yanagita Kunio and the folklore movement in a 1990...
- Folktale research after Yanagita: development and related issues.
- Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies Hiroshi, Kawamori December 1, 2003 700+ words
...focus on research that I am particularly interested in. CHARACTERISTICS OF YANAGITA KUNIO'S FOLKTALE RESEARCH--EXPLORING THE BELIEFS BEHIND FOLKTALES Yanagita Kunio [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (1875-1962) established the foundation...
- A female shaman's mind and body, and possession.
- Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies Kunimitsu, Kawamura December 1, 2003 700+ words
YANAGITA KUNIO can possibly be considered the first Japanese scholar to try his hand...of female shamans by using a large amount of historical material. YANAGITA KUNIO'S THEORY ON FEMALE SHAMANS In his work "The Sister's Power...
- Jingu Kogo ema in Southwestern Japan: reflections and anticipations of the...
- Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies Anderson, Richard W. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...feels it is necessary to develop indigenous methods for analyzing Japanese history; he has therefore turned to the work of Yanagita Kunio, the founder of Japanese folklore studies, for inspiration and guidance. (5) IROKAWA, in one of his major works...