Yanagita Kunio is known as &#;The Father of Japanese Folklore.&#; If not for him, many ancient Japanese legends would have been lost to the tides of modernization. He established folklore as a legitimate field of academic study as he traveled his nation, carefully listening to the thoughts, concerns, and stories or ordinary people. Yanagita is little known in the Western world, but his contributions are just as important as &#; and remarkably similar to &#; those of the Brothers Grimm.
Without the work of early folklorists, many commonly known children&#;s stories &#; and the works they&#;ve inspired &#; wouldn&#;t exist today. Fields such as literature, film, art, and even comic books would be much poorer without the hard work done by Yanagita to preserve Japan&#;s shared cultural memory.
Activity: Discover Early Folklorists
Have students research the lives and work of the people who helped to establish the field of folklore in the 19th Century. Students can, in groups or as individuals, write and present reports that summarize the biography and work of an early folklorist. Encourage students to choose subjects from around the world so that biographies and folklore work
Who was Kunio Yanagita?
Kunio Yanagita was a Japanesescholar who is oftenknown as the father of Japanesenative folkloristics, or minzokugaku.
He was born in Fukusaki, Hyōgo Prefecture. Aftergraduating with a degree in law from TokyoImperial University, he becameemployed as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. In the course of his bureaucratic duties, Yanagita had the opportunity to travelthroughoutmainland Japan. Duringthesebusiness trips, Yanagitabecameincreasinglyinterested in observing and recordingdetailspertaining to localvillage customs. Under the influence of literaryfriends such as the writerShimazaki Toson, Yanagitapublishedworkssupposedlybased on local oral traditions such as Tales of Tono. He collaboratedextensively with folkloristKizen Sasaki, and they publishedseveralbooks together.
Yanagita's focus on local traditions was part of a larger effort to insert the lives of commoners into narratives of Japanese history. He argued that historical narratives were typically dominated by events pertaining to rulers and high-ranking officials. Yanagita claimed that these narratives focused on elite-centered historical events and ignored the relative un
YANAGITA Kunio
A founder of modern Japanese folklore studies. After graduating from the Department of Law at the Imperial University of Tokyo in , he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. After serving as sanjikan (councillor) of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, he was appointed as chief secretary for the House of Peers until he retired in One year later he joined the Asahi Shimbun and worked as a columnist until He started to study folklore in and published Tono Monogatari (Story of Tono), which pioneered the area of studies now recognized as Japanese folklore studies. He compiled his works into Minkan Denshoron (Theory upon folklore) in and continued his research even during and after World War II. His over one hundred works are included in Teihon Yanagita Kunio Shu (Edited Collection of Yanagita Kunio’s works). Awarded the Order of Culture in
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