Yanagita, Kunio,  1875-1962, <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> "This 1935 supplementary collection of 299 tales is referred to in Japanese as ... (Tōno monogatari shui)."--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Japanese. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1442248211 144224822X 9781442248212 9781442248229 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014049847 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folklore--Japan--Tōno-shi Region.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tōno-shi Region (Japan)--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GR341 .T63  / Y363 2015