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

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

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Melek Ortabasi

344 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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 b...

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