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The Legends of Tono

by Yanagita Kunio · Ronald A. Morse (trans.)

A translation of Yanagita Kunio's Tōno monogatari (1910), a collection of tales from a mountain district of Iwate featuring kappa, house spirits, mountain people and strange encounters. The book founded Japanese folklore studies.

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