... of Yanagita Kunio . By Melek Ortabasi . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xiii, 344 pp. ISBN: 9780674492004 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 I was lucky to have to read these two books back-to-back for this joint...

...Frederick G. Kavanagh International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies . Edited by J. Victor Koschmann , Ōiwa Keibō , and Yamashita Shinji . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University, China-Japan Program , 1985 . (Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 37.) x, 206 pp...

... in the process of "transcending modernity" {kindai no chokoku) (Najita and Harootunian 1988, 758-68). Yanagita Kunio and the Redefinition of Bunka Nishida was just one of many writers who, in the late 1930s to early 1940s, turned their attention to "the problem of Japanese culture" (Nihon Bunka Kyokai...

...Sharlie C. Ushioda About our Ancestors . By Kunio Yanagita . Translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer and Ishiwara Yasuyo . Tokyo : Bunsyodo Printing . (Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.) 193 pp. n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971...

... one which might have encouraged an attitude of skepticism toward the overly centralized and homogenized representation of the past sponsored by the state" (p. 157). "An Approach to Yanagita Kunio's View of Language," by Oiwa Keibo, delineates three distinctive features of Yanagita's linguistic...

... is the center of Yanagita's attention, with emphasis on linguistic analysis of terms such as ho\ai, matsuri, and hoto\e. Chapters 53 to 61 center around discussion of the distinction between ancestors and the newly dead, while the last twenty chapters of the book are generally concerned with Japanese ideas...

... the transformation of state power in the nineteenth century was played out at the local level and the process by which commercialization became capitalism. His work deserves careful reading by a wide audience. ANNE WALTHALL University of Utah International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies...

... and arranged according to the classification system devised by Yanagita Kunio in Nihon mukashibanashi meii (Yanagita Kunio, superv., Nihon Hoso Kyokai, comp.; Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 1948), one of the standard reference works in Japanese folk-tale studies. In Ancient Tales Fanny Hagin Mayer improves...

... trade statistics. The book came out at a time when there is a great need for better understanding of the China trade issue. It should be read by all who have an interest (academic or practical) in this problem. FENG-HWA MAH University of Washington About our Ancestors. BY KUNIO YANAGITA. Translated...

... far they have agreed that the new Japanese historiography, like the new Japanese democracy, must be indigenous. For too long, they argue, Japan has been made analogous to the West. It is in this context that they have increasingly sought methodological guidance in the works of Yanagita Kunio...

... with the 1889 Constitution. Studies in Japanese Folklore. Edited by RICHARD M. DORSON. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. ix, 347. Glossary, Notes, n.p. Yanagita Kunio, the late founder of Japanese Professor Maki has preferred to refrain from "folklore science," believed that "Japan posses- extended...

... Robertson on the interconnectedness of two buzzwords of recent decades, kokusaika (internationalization) and furusato (native place). Part Three, "Folk," consists of essays by Hashimoto Mitsuru and H.D. Harootunian on the ethnologist Yanagita Kunio, and the fourth section, "Sports," of an essay by Inoue...

... motor behind native-place studies: native ethnography, or minzokugaku. Starting in the early 1900s, Yanagita Kunio, Japan's pioneering ethnographer, had begun articulating a new vision of the countryside as the locus of an authentic Japanese folk (Harootunian 1998; Hashimoto 1998; Koschmann et al. 1985...

... “nationalized” in the Meiji era. Brandt refers to this nationalizing process, but she does not make it clear that Yanagi, as well as Yanagita Kunio, the originator and “emperor” of Japan folklore studies, was inclined to overlook the “foreignness” of these areas. If these regions were not culturally foreign...

... years. Brief salutatory observations by the master Yanagita follow. The six broad topical groupings of the Japanese papers suggest an outline of principal interest areas: "Rice Farmers," "The Ebisugami in Fishing Villages," "Ironworkers," "Worshippers," "Housewives," and "Youths." Not surprisingly...

... to rekishi ishiki . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten . Katsutoshi Watanabe , ed. 1992 . Jihi shuppan no furanchaizu . Tokyo : Tokyo keizai . Kunio. Yanagita { 1934 } 1990. “Minkandensho-ron.” In Yanagita Kunio zenshū 28 , edited by Tamemasa Yanagita , Miho Mihara , Chizu Ōta...

... Vernacular. $70.00. The culture of Hateruma, a south Ryukyuan Japanese island, has been studied before, but never with the care and detail given it by the Dutch anthropologist Cornelius Ouwehand, in a landmark English-language study. Folklorists such as Yanagita Kunio and Origuchi Shinobu have studied...

... Pact, to bring its provisions into accord with the 1889 Constitution. Studies in Japanese Folklore. Edited by RICHARD M. DORSON. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. ix, 347. Glossary, Notes, n.p. Yanagita Kunio, the late founder of Japanese Professor Maki has preferred to refrain from...

..., and Miyazaki Kazue, editor, Kunisaki hantō no mukashibanashi. Reviewed in HJAS Vol. 30 (1970) pp. 263 ff. 3 Nippon mukashibanashi meii. By Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, editors, and Yanagita Kunio, supervision. Tokyo: Nippon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai, 1948. 4 Nippon mukashibanashi shūsei, Three Parts...

... avoided if Dr. Ikeda had confined herself to Seki's Shusei, upon which she based her study. She lists in her Bibliography and occasionally refers to an earlier classification, the Nippon mu\ashibanashi meii, Tokyo 1948, which was compiled from the notes of Yanagita Kunio and under his supervision. Types...