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

#363 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Undiscovered Country

Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio

Melek Ortabasi

2014

Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual.

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#363 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 54-book series with 56 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and Alexander Barton Woodside.