{"product_id":"b0gy8fct51","title":"Legends of Japan: Collected by the Father of Japanese Folklore (Bunbu Press Japan Library Book 7)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA foundational classic of Japanese folklore, available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn  Legends of Japan , Kunio Yanagita—widely regarded as the father of Japanese folklore studies—opens a window onto the mysterious, sacred, and deeply human world of Japan’s village traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1929–1930 as  Nihon no Densetsu , this landmark work gathers regional legends of miraculous springs, one-eyed fish, sacred stones, protective old-woman deities, mountain rivalries, wandering Jizō figures, divine battles, and roadside wonders once known to farmers, travelers, elders, and children across Japan. Yanagita does more than preserve strange tales: he reveals how ordinary people understood the landscape around them, and how local memory bound communities to wells, ponds, shrines, bridges, trees, and mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition is the  first complete English translation of  Nihon no Densetsu , making one of Yanagita’s essential works accessible to English-language readers in full for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWarm, reflective, and rich with insight,  Legends of Japan  will appeal to readers of Japanese folklore, mythology, Shinto-Buddhist folk belief, yōkai lore, Lafcadio Hearn, cultural history, anthropology, and classic world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rare invitation into a Japan of sacred places and living stories—where every village path, stone image, and mountain pass may still remember an older world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52837816860888,"sku":"YSL67952","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81J01tU8S1L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793283240","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0gy8fct51","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}