Diary of a farmer at the foot of Mt. Kanpū : living off the land in northern Japan, 1935-1936
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Diary of a farmer at the foot of Mt. Kanpū : living off the land in northern Japan, 1935-1936
University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2025] , , c2025
- : hardback
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Oga Kanpūsanroku nōmin nichiroku
男鹿寒風山麓農民日録
Oga Kanpū sanroku nōmin nichiroku
男鹿寒風山麓農民日録
Living off the land in northern Japan, 1935-1936
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
"Originally published in 1938 in Japanese by the Attic Museum, Tokyo, as: Oga Kanpūsanroku nōmin nichioku (男鹿寒風山麓農民日録)"
Summary:"On March 13, 1935, in a small village on the craggy Oga Peninsula in northeastern Japan, an industrious vegetable farmer named Yoshida Saburō began writing a one-year chronicle of his life and community, having received the assignment from Tokyo financier Shibusawa Keizō, a passionate folklore enthusiast and ethnological research supporter. In his diary, Yoshida reports meticulous discussions of farming and village life, providing thorough documentation of his family's meals, daily itemized tallies of income and expenditures, plus crop and household financial data going back seven years. His coverage of folkways, customs, and superstitions give insight into traditions and faith, while illuminating his progressivism that is further highlighted by critiques of other farmers' methods. Yoshida reveals a microcosm populated by unsympathetic landlords, destitute tenant farmers, disenfranchised young men, vulnerable young women, and increasingly covetous villagers amidst poverty, all within a contracting ec
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-470) and index