Keigo Seki

Keigo Seki (関 敬吾, Seki Keigo, 1899–1990) was a Japanese folklorist. He 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.[1]

This work culminated in his Nihon mukashibanashi shūsei (Collection of Japanese Folktales) (1928, revised 1961), in six volumes, which classified Japanese folktales after the model of the Aarne-Thompson system.[2]

A selection was published as Nihon No Mukashi-Banashi (1956–7), and was translated into English as Folktales of Japan (1963) by Robert J. Adams.[3][4]

Seki founded the Japanese Society for Folk Literature in 1977.[2]

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  2. ^ a b Ozawa, Toisho (2008). "Seki Keigo". The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. 3: 846 – via Gale Ebooks.
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  4. ^ Seki (1963).