Kunio Yanagita

✶July 31, 1875

†August 8, 1962

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Kunio Yanagita was a Japanese author, scholar, ethnographer, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku, as an academic field in Japan. As a result, he is often considered to be the father of modern Japanese folklore studies.

Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)

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Biography from the article Kunio Yanagita on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.