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.
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Tsuneichi Miyamoto. The Forgotten Japanese
Translator’s Introduction
Author’s Preface
Life Stories
Meetings
Folksongs
Grandpa Kajita Tomigoro
Nagura Talk
Women’s Society
Tosa Genji
My Grandfather
The Worldly (I): Masuda Itaro
The Worldly (II): Sakon Kumata
Literate Transmitters (I): Tanaka Umeji
Literate Transmitters (II): Takagi Seiichi
Village Stories
The Child Hunt
Tosa Terakawa Night Tale
Village Meetings
The Story of Kawame
Totsukawa Landslide
Birth of New Totsukawa Village
The Wanderers’ Family Tree
Glossary
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The Forgotten Japanese
Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore
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In the following year, 1951, I returned to Tsushima for research. I heard the most folksongs in Sasuna, near Sago. One evening I arrived in Sasuna, together with Shibusawa-sensei, chief of this research, and the women of the village performed a Kabuki dance for us. They sang each passage of the story of Chushingura, and the dance with which they accompanied it was truly refined. I became friendly with the old woman who sang. Remarking that I thought this area should have a lot of songs, I asked if she might sing for me. She consented with pleasure, and told me to come over that night.
The women who sang for Miyamoto, seeing him off at
