Translator's introduction -- Author's preface -- Meetings -- Folksongs -- Grandpa Kajita Tomigoro -- Nagura talk -- Women's society -- Tosa Genji -- My grandfather -- The worldly (I): Masuda Itaro -- The worldly (II): Sakon Kumata -- Literature transmitters (I): Tanaka Umeji -- Literature transmitters (II): Takagi Seiichi -- The child hunt -- Tosa Terakawa night tale -- Village meetings -- The story of Kawame -- Totsukawa landslide -- Birth of a new Totsukawa village -- The wanderers' family tree.
Summary
A revealing look into the hearts of the Japanese people and at rural lifestyles that have all but disappeared, in a long-awaited translation of a classic text by one of Japan's great folklore scholars.
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