TY - BOOK AU - Yanagita,Kunio AU - Sasaki,Kizen TI - Folk legends from Tono: Japan's spirits, deities, and phantastic creatures SN - 1442248211 AV - GR341 .T63 Y363 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Folklore KW - Japan KW - Tōno-shi Region KW - Tōno-shi Region (Japan) KW - Social life and customs N1 - "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 ER -