The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore - Softcover

Miyamoto, Tsuneichi; Irish, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611720761 ISBN 13: 9781611720761

Verlag: Stone Bridge Press, 2021

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A groundbreaking document of rural Japanese life, stories, and traditions from 1850-1960.

Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-1981), a leading Japanese folklore scholar and rural advocate, walked 160,000 kilometers to conduct interviews and capture a dying way of life. This collection of photos, vignettes, and life stories from pre- and postwar rural Japan is the first English translation of his modern Japanese classic. From blowfish to landslides, Miyamoto's stories come to life in Jeffrey Irish's fluid translation.

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Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-81) was a a leading scholar of Japanese folklore and customs. He walked over 160,000 kilometers through rural Japan, collecting the songs, stories, and images of a dying way of life, and was an advocate of social and economic invigoration of rural Japan.

Jeffrey S. Irish is a scholar who has long been immersed in life in rural Japan. Irish wrote a column for a Japanese newspaper for ten years and is the author of four books in Japanese about rural Japan. He served twice as "mayor" of a village, population 30, and teaches courses in community regeneration at a university in Kagoshima.

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• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1611720761
• ISBN 13: 9781611720761
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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