Shinobu Orikuchi
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Japanese writer and academic
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Shinobu Orikuchi's Degrees
- Doctorate Japanese Literature Kyoto University
Why Is Shinobu Orikuchi Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shinobu Orikuchi, also known as Chōkū Shaku, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named "Orikuchiism", which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō. He produced many works in a diversity of fields covering the history of literature, folkloric performing arts, folklore itself, Japanese language, the classics study, Shintōology, ancient study, and so on. Yukio Mishima once called him the "Japanese Walter Pater".
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