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...

away. Historians, ethnologists and physicists such as Kazuo Tanaka and Yanagita Kunio have discussed the legend as part of a longstanding tradition within...

its name due to its tail resembling a tube spliced in two. Folklorist Yanagita Kunio conjectured that the kuda alluded to a god's descent (verb: kudaru)...

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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...

bakemono, which are free to haunt any place without being bound to it. Yanagita Kunio generally distinguishes yūrei from obake by noting that yūrei tend to...

Islanders], Asian Folklore Studies, 11: 182–183, hdl:2241/14337 Yanagita (1971), p. 50. Yanagita, Kunio (1971), "Kaijō no michi" 海上の道, Okinawa bunka ronsō 2, Heibonsha...

theory") is a linguistic theory put forward by Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio explaining the usage of certain words in a language used in some regions...

following theory by Yanagita. "Flat land" theory (currently most widely accepted): In his 1936 study of placenames, the author Kunio Yanagita states that "the...

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...

TEA Kirjastus. 2014. ISBN 9789949243303. Yanagita, Kunio; Translated by Fanny Hagin Meyer (1986). Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Indiana...

with a Long Name": The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale (1986) Online edition: Mayer, fanny Haggin; Yanagita, Kunio, eds. (n.d.) [1986]. "234...

local mecca regions such as Tōno in Iwate Prefecture (where stories in Kunio Yanagita's Tono Monogatari were collected) or Tottori Prefecture (Shigeru Mizuki's...

to 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...

by the folklorist Kunio Yanagita. Yanagita disliked the word minwa (民話), a coined term directly translated from "folktale" (Yanagita stated that the term...

3 ryō and flees to the mountains in the end. It was the opinion of Kunio Yanagita that tales in this Bunbuku group and "Fox Harlot" (狐遊女, kitsune yūjo)...

Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. pp. 331–350. ISBN 0910240205. Kunio, Yanagita (1986). The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Translated by Mayer,...

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...

biologist Kunio Yanagita (柳田 國男, 1875–1962), Japanese folklorist and ethnologist Kunio Yonehara (米原 邦夫, born 1941), Japanese water polo player Kunio Yonenaga...

properly disposing or pacifying the ancestral spirit. The folklorist Yanagita Kunio has asserted that the rituals and ideas around sorei could be fitted...

Retrieved 2013-04-14. "The Golden Hatchet". Yanagita, Kunio; Translated by Fanny Hagin Meyer (1986). Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Indiana...

from the Dragon Palace is a Japanese folktale collected by scholar Yanagita Kunio. A man of low social standing marries a maiden who is the daughter of...

young man at the play is the bath heater, and marries him. Scholar Kunio Yanagita noted that these tales were the male counterpart of the heroine of the...

Keigo, 1899–1990) was a Japanese folklorist. He joined a group under Yanagita Kunio, but often came to different conclusions regarding the same folktales...

quality and authenticity of the products made by factories. According to Yanagita Kunio (1969): Japanese have probably always believed in amulets of one kind...

Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1970 Yanagita, Kunio; Translated by Fanny Hagin Meyer (1986). Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale. Indiana...

bereavement arrives. Many of the local terms for the ikiryō were collected by Kunio Yanagita and his school of folklorists. In the tradition of the Nishitsugaru...

criticizing the deeds done by the central and prefectural governments. Yanagita Kunio, then a counselor of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau and later father...

Fantasy and Modernity. Stanford University Press. Yanagita, Kunio (1962). Works of Yanagita Kunio. Tokyo: Chikuma Shohu. pp. 7–22. Kramarae, Cheris;...

himself (or his wife uses it) to turn him into a handsome man. Scholar Kunio Yanagita collected the tale The Mudsnail Chōja from a teller in Sannohe-gun,...