Current State of Studies in Oral Tradition in Japan
Abstract
"Language is deeply related to the personality of its culture, and Japanese is strikingly different from Western languages. The styles of Yanagita and Origuchi are especially emotion-oriented. This quality leads to esotericism, and even native Japanese scholars find them hard to understand. Both are famous poets, and their ways of grasping objects are intuitive; they pay little attention to the logical reconstruction of their inner world. Through their strange, enchanting force as well as their ambiguity, Yanagita and Origuchi are leading us into productive and significant new phases of folklore."--Page 374.
Citation
Oral Tradition, 7/2 (1992): 373-382.
Rights
OpenAccess.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.