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Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures / collected by Yanagita Kunio and Sasaki Kizen ; translated and edited by Ronald A. Morse ; illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 155 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1442248211
  • 144224822X
  • 9781442248212
  • 9781442248229
Other title:
  • 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
Uniform titles:
  • Tōno monogatari. English.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GR341 .T63 Y363 2015
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GR341 .T63 Y363 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001501880

"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.

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