Keigo Seki
Keigo Seki was a Japanese folklorist. He was joined a group under Yanagita Kunio, but often came to different conclusions regarding the same folktales. Along with collecting and compiling folktales, Seki also arranged them into a series of categories.
This work culminated in his Nihon mukashibanashi shūsei , in three volumes, which classified Japanese folktales after the model of the Aarne-Thompson system.
A selection was published as Nihon No Mukashi-Banashi, and was translated into English as Folktales of Japan by Robert J. Adams.
Seki was a native of Nagasaki Prefecture and graduate of Toyo University.Major works
- Nihon Mukashibanashi Shūsei
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