Kunio Yanagita

Yanagita Kunio (Japanese柳 田 国 男, real name: Kunio Matsuoka, born July 31, 1875 in Tsujikawa; † August 8, 1962 ) was a Japanese ethnologist and author.

Life

Matsuoka was born the sixth of eight children of the physician and teacher Matsuoka Misao. He came to Tokyo in 1890 and studied from 1897 to 1900 at the Law Abbey Tung of Political Sciences, University of Tokyo Agricultural Science at Matsuzaki Kuranosuke. After that, he was an employee in the Ministry of Agriculture. At the age of 27 years he was adopted by the Supreme Court Yanagita Naohira and took the name of Yanagita Kunio. In 1914 he became Secretary General of the upper house of the Japanese Imperial Diet. After five years he gave up the job and was an employee of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun. In 1921 he received a mandate for the League of Nations and traveled on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Geneva. After his return he was until 1930 an advisory editor of Asahi Shinbun, next he held lectures at the ethnographic literature faculty of Keio University. Thereafter he devoted himself until his death, influenced by European ethnology, folklore. After lyrical works in his youth Yanagita published several ethnographic books. He is regarded as the "father of anthropology " in Japan.

Swell

  • Peter Lutum: "Thinking of Minakata Kumagusu Yanagita Kunio and " LIT Verlag Münster, 2005, ISBN 9783825880682, pp. 66 ff
  • Katai Tayama, Kenneth G. Henshall: "Literary life in Tōkyō, 1885-1915: Tayama Katai 's memoirs ' Thirty years in Tōkyō ,'" Brill Archive, 1987, ISBN 9789004081192, pp. 64-65
  • Encyclopedia of Shinto - Yanagita Kunio
  • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online - Yanagita, Kunio
  • Ethnologist
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • University teachers ( Keio University )
  • Person with special cultural merits
  • Japanese
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1962
  • Man
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