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Kunio Yanagita

1875 - 1962

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Kunio Yanagita (Japanese: 柳田 國男, Hepburn: Yanagita Kunio; July 31, 1875 – August 8, 1962) was a Japanese author, scholar, ethnographer, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku, as an academic field in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kunio Yanagita is the 109th most popular linguist (up from 111th in 2019), the 1,011th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,012th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Kunio Yanagita ranks 109 out of 214. Before him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Daniel Jones, Jules Gilliéron, Jan de Vries, Brian Houghton Hodgson, and August Immanuel Bekker. After him are Albert Sechehaye, Stephen Krashen, Nakahama Manjirō, John Chadwick, Milena Hübschmannová, and John Florio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kunio Yanagita ranks 109. Before him are Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Eusebio Ayala, Georges Hébert, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Albert Ayat, and Joseph Vendryes. After him are Erkki Melartin, Arthur Bernardes, Oscar Goßler, Otto Gessler, Felix Hamrin, and Bernhard Lichtenberg. Among people deceased in 1962, Kunio Yanagita ranks 112. Before him are Richard Herrmann, Hermann Muhs, Pierre Benoit, Philippe Cattiau, Franz Kaiser, and Sylvia Beach. After him are Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Paul Götz, Joe Ruddy, Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Carl Diem, and Roger Ducret.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 1,011 out of 6,245. Before him are Futabatei Shimei (1864), Takuya Kimura (1972), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), and Nobuyo Fujishiro (1960). After him are Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Kenta Komatsu (1988), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), and Doppo Kunikida (1871).

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Among LINGUISTS In Japan

Among linguists born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 2. Before him are Kūkai (774). After him are Nakahama Manjirō (1827), and Takekazu Asaka (1952).

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