TY - BOOK ID - 143150209 TI - Yanagita, Kunio AU - Ortabasi, Melek AU - Atkinson, Paul AU - Delamont, Sara AU - Cernat, Alexandru AU - Sakshaug, Joseph W. AU - Williams, Richard A. PY - 2020 SN - 152974847X PB - London : SAGE Publications Ltd., DB - UniCat KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143150209 AB - Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) is generally regarded as the founder of modern folk studies (minzokugaku) in Japan (note that this entry follows the Japanese convention of listing the surname [family name] first, followed by the given name). However, a brief glance at his life reveals the diverse scholarly contributions made by this ambitious son of Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912). A socially engaged intellectual, he came of age in a Japan that had only recently adopted a parliamentary government and was in the midst of wide-ranging efforts to modernizeand Westernizeeverything from politics and industry to culture and society. Driven by what he saw as Japan's modern crisis of identity, Yanagita became a self-made scholar who took a culturally focused, interdisciplinary attitude to solving that problem. ER -