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The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale

by Fanny Hagin Mayer

This is the first English language translation of the Japanese classic Nihon mukashibanashi meii. The work remains the only single-volume reference available to the student of the Japanese folk tale. The author, Yanagita Kunio, was a prominent figure in early twentieth-century Japanese intellectual circles. The Guide is the result of thirty years of folk tale research by Yanagita, his colleagues, and his students. The editor, Fanny Hagin Mayer, having received encouragement and assistance from the late Yanagita Kunio, has brought the 347 folk tale types and the distribution of their variants into conformity with Japanese folk tale scholarship for the use of Western scholars. She has numbered the tale types in the Guide to facilitate reference to Ancient Tales in Modern Japan, the anthology of folk tales selected from the Guide. A complete bibliography of sources, several indexes, and maps have also been furnished by the editor.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Translator’s Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • About Folk Tales by Yanagita Kunio
  • Part One: Folk Tales in Complete Form
    • Chapter 1. Propitious Births
    • Chapter 2. The Life of Unusual Children
    • Chapter 3. Unpromising Marriages That Became Happy
    • Chapter 4. Stepchildren Stories
    • Chapter 5. Brothers Not Alike
    • Chapter 6. Finding Treasures
    • Chapter 7. Overcoming Evils
    • Chapter 8. Help from Animals
    • Chapter 9. The Power of Words
    • Chapter 10. Cleverness at Work
  • Part Two: Derived Tales
    • Chapter 11. Stories about Destiny
    • Chapter 12. Ghost Stories
    • Chapter 13. Humorous Stories: Exaggerations
    • Chapter 14. Humorous Stories: Profitless Imitation
    • Chapter 15. Humorous Stories: Tales of Foolish Villages
    • Chapter 16. Tales about Birds, Beasts, Plants, and Trees
    • Chapter 17. Miscellaneous Stories between Folk Tales and legends
  • The Fascination of Folk Tales and Names, Beginnings and Endings
  • Bibliography of Sources
  • Reference Index
  • Glossary
  • An Alphabetical List of Titles with Tale Numbers
  • Alphabetical List of Japanese Titles to Tale-Types
  • Geographical Index
  • Maps

Metadata

  • isbn
    978-0-253-05556-9
  • publisher
    Indiana University Press
  • publisher place
    Bloomington, Indiana USA
  • restrictions
    CC-BY-NC-ND
  • rights
    Copyright © Trustees of Indiana University
  • rights holder
    Indiana University Press
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