The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters With Rural Life and Folklore - Couverture souple

Miyamoto, Tsuneichi; Irish, Jeffrey

 
9781611720761: The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters With Rural Life and Folklore

Synopsis

A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.


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À propos de l?auteur

Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-81) was a a leading scholar of Japanese folklore and customs. He walked over 160,000 kilometers through rural Japan, collecting the songs, stories, and images of a dying way of life, and was an advocate of social and economic invigoration of rural Japan.

Jeffrey S. Irish is a scholar who has long been immersed in life in rural Japan. Irish wrote a column for a Japanese newspaper for ten years and is the author of four books in Japanese about rural Japan. He served twice as "mayor" of a village, population 30, and teaches courses in community regeneration at a university in Kagoshima.

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9781933330808: The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters With Rural Life and Folklore

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1933330805 ISBN 13 :  9781933330808
Editeur : Stone Bridge Press, 2010
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