Kunio Yanagita
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Japanese folklorist
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Why Is Kunio Yanagita Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kunio Yanagita was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku, as an academic field in Japan. As a result, he is often considered to be the father of modern Japanese folklore studies.
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