The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio

by Melek Ortabasi

Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) was a public intellectual who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. A self-taught folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, he promoted folk studies in Japan. So extensive was his role that he has been compared with the fabled Grimm Brothers of Germany and the great British folklorist James G. Frazer (1854-1941), author of The Golden Bough . This monograph is only the second book-length English-language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674492005
• ISBN13: 9780674492004
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"