Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore - Hardcover

Miyamoto, Tsuneichi; Irish, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933330805 ISBN 13: 9781933330808

Verlag: Stone Bridge Press, 2010

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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 Irish is a scholar and translator who has long been immersed in life in rural Japan. A contributing editor to the Kyoto Journal, Irish has been a columnist for a Japanese newspaper for seven years and is the author of the Japanese-language books Prewar Kagoshima and Island Life. He was recently elected "mayor" of his 28-person village.

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• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1933330805
• ISBN 13: 9781933330808
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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