Kunio Yanagita's Tales of Tōno

In 1910 Kunio Yanagita published 119 tales told to him by Kizen Sasaki of Tōno, Iwate, founding Japanese folklore studies.

1910 CE · 39.33, 141.53 · status: official

The account

The book records zashiki-warashi house spirits, kappa, mountain men, fox tricks and returning dead, as people of the valley told them.

Connections in the atlas

• Kappa-buchi pool of Tōno
• The old woman of Samuto

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Tōno Monogatari