Talk:Kunio Yanagita

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My first Wikipedia contribution! I added a link to an external article about Yanagita Kunio at the bottom of the page, in hopes that it'll help in expanding this stub. I'd suggest adding a few more of his works at the end, especially ones that have been translated and published in English. Also I'd like the article to mention a little more about 1. his interest in literature (especially Naturalism and his friendship also with Mori Ogai and Kunikida Doppo), 2. his intellectual influences (kokugaku and western ethnology, for example), 3. his key ideas (other than "the common people" (jomin)), and 4. his legacy (including his students and the subsequent "Yanagita booms" in the 1930s and again in the 1960s among left-leaning Japanese intellectuals. I'll wait for a while to see if anyone has any suggestions/critiques. --tak 14:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)