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The forgotten Japanese : encounters with rural life and folklore / Miyamoto Tsuneichi ; translated by Jeffrey S. Irish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miyamoto, Tsuneichi, 1907-1981.
- Standardized Title:
- Wasurerareta Nihonjin. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--History.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Stone Bridge Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Translator's Introduction; Author's Preface; PART ONE - LIFE STORIES; 1 Meetings; 2 Folksongs; 3 Grandpa Kajita Tomigoro; 4 Nature Talk; 5 Women's Society; 6 Tosa Genji; 8 The Worldly (I): Masuda Itaro; 9 The Worldly (II): Sakon Kumata; 10 Literate Transmitters (I): Tanaka Umeji; 11 Literate Transmitters (II): Takagi Seiichi; PART TWO - VILLAGE STORIES; 12 The Child Hunt; 13 Tosa Terakawa Night Tale; 14 Village Meetings; 15 The Story of Kawame; 16 Totsukawa Landslide; 17 Birth of New Totsukawa Village; 18 The Wanderers' Family Tree; Glossary
- Notes:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- ISBN:
- 9781611725025
- 161172502X
- OCLC:
- 727647927
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