Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures / collected by Yanagita Kunio and Sasaki Kizen ; translated and edited by Ronald A. Morse ; illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 155 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1442248211
- 144224822X
- 9781442248212
- 9781442248229
- Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures
- Folk legends from Tono : Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures
- Japan's spirits, deities, and fantastic creatures
- Tōno monogatari. English.
- GR341 .T63 Y363 2015
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"This 1935 supplementary collection of 299 tales is referred to in Japanese as ... (Tōno monogatari shui)."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Japan's traditional spirit world. 1. Biology and human emotions ; 2. Souls adrift between two worlds ; 3. Family, kinship, and household deities ; 4. Sidestepping misfortune and evil ; 5. Survival on the edge ; 6. Tracking nature's trickster animals ; 7. Glimpses of modern monsters ; 8. No spirit forgotten -- Appendix A: Sasaki Kizen: a brief biography of Japan's Grimm -- Appendix B: Background to the book.
Translated from the Japanese.