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Japanese peasant songs / compiled and annotated by John F. Embree, with the assistance of Ella Embree and Yukuo Uyehara.
LIBRA GR1 .A5 v.38
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Embree, John F. (John Fee), 1908-1950.
- Series:
- American Folklore Society. Memoirs ; v.38.
- Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Folk songs, Japanese--Japan--Kuma.
- Folk songs, Japanese.
- Japanese poetry--Translations into English.
- Japanese poetry.
- English poetry--Translations from Japanese.
- English poetry.
- Polynesian rat.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 96 pages : plates. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1944.
- Notes:
- Without music.
- "The present collection of songs from the single county of Kuma in Kyûshû consists of over a hundred texts transcribed in the village of Suye ... The Japanese text ... is given in the local dialect, romanization following the traditional Hepburn system ... Most of the texts were transcribed by Ella Embree ... The final [English] translations were worked out ... with the assistance of Professor Yukuo Uyehara."--p. 10-11.
- "Works referred to": pages 91-92.
- OCLC:
- 2325448
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