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The Forgotten Japanese - Tsuneichi Miyamoto, Jeffrey Irish

The Forgotten Japanese

Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore
Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2021
Stone Bridge Press (Verlag)
978-1-61172-076-1 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.


Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-1981), a leading Japanese folklore scholar and rural advocate, walked 160,000 kilometers to conduct interviews and capture a dying way of life. This collection of photos, vignettes, and life stories from pre- and postwar rural Japan is the first English translation of his modern Japanese classic. From blowfish to landslides, Miyamoto's stories come to life in Jeffrey Irish's fluid translation.

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.

Contents


Translator's Introduction 7
Author's Preface 14



Part One Life Stories
I Meetings 21
2 Folksongs 30
3 Grandpa Kajita Tomigoro 41
4 Nagura Talk 58
5 Women's Society 90
6 Tosa Genji 108
7 My Grandfather 128
8 The Worldly (I): Masuda Itaro 145
9 The Worldly (II): Sakon Kumata 161
1O Literate Transmitters (I): Tanaka Umeji 178
11 Literate Transmitters (II): Takagi Seiichi 195


Part Two Village Stories
12 The Child Hunt 213
13 Tosa Terakawa Night Tale 217
14 Village Meetings 226
15 The Story of Kawame 237
16 Totsukawa Landslide 264
17 Birth of New Totsukawa Village 281
18 The Wanderers' Family Tree 285



Glossary 305

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo BW photos and maps
Verlagsort Berkeley CA
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-61172-076-1 / 1611720761
ISBN-13 978-1-61172-076-1 / 9781611720761
Zustand Neuware
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