Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures /
Yanagita, Kunio, 1875-1962,
Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures / Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures. Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures. Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures. collected by Yanagita Kunio and Sasaki Kizen ; translated and edited by Ronald A. Morse ; illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt. - xiii, 155 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
"This 1935 supplementary collection of 299 tales is referred to in Japanese as ... (Tōno monogatari shui)."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Japan's traditional spirit world. 1. Biology and human emotions ; 2. Souls adrift between two worlds ; 3. Family, kinship, and household deities ; 4. Sidestepping misfortune and evil ; 5. Survival on the edge ; 6. Tracking nature's trickster animals ; 7. Glimpses of modern monsters ; 8. No spirit forgotten -- Appendix A: Sasaki Kizen: a brief biography of Japan's Grimm -- Appendix B: Background to the book.
Translated from the Japanese.
1442248211 144224822X 9781442248212 9781442248229
2014049847
Folklore--Japan--Tōno-shi Region.
Tōno-shi Region (Japan)--Social life and customs.
GR341 .T63 / Y363 2015
Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures / Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures. Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures. Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures. collected by Yanagita Kunio and Sasaki Kizen ; translated and edited by Ronald A. Morse ; illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt. - xiii, 155 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
"This 1935 supplementary collection of 299 tales is referred to in Japanese as ... (Tōno monogatari shui)."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Japan's traditional spirit world. 1. Biology and human emotions ; 2. Souls adrift between two worlds ; 3. Family, kinship, and household deities ; 4. Sidestepping misfortune and evil ; 5. Survival on the edge ; 6. Tracking nature's trickster animals ; 7. Glimpses of modern monsters ; 8. No spirit forgotten -- Appendix A: Sasaki Kizen: a brief biography of Japan's Grimm -- Appendix B: Background to the book.
Translated from the Japanese.
1442248211 144224822X 9781442248212 9781442248229
2014049847
Folklore--Japan--Tōno-shi Region.
Tōno-shi Region (Japan)--Social life and customs.
GR341 .T63 / Y363 2015