Research on the Lifeand Writings of Yoshida Saburo

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21720317
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Akita University
• Principal Investigator: WOOD Donald 秋田大学, 大学院・医学系研究科, 准教授 (80375237)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2012
• Keywords: 民俗学 / 地域社会 / 農村

Research Abstract

This project focused on the life and writings of Akita farmer Yoshida Saburo (1905-1979) who, despite his humble beginnings in a small village on the Oga Peninsula of Akita Prefecture, became an amateur ethnographer, earned the patronage of Shibusawa Keizo (grandson and heir of Shibusawa Eiichi) and mingled with the leading figures of .Japanese ethnology and sociology while living in Tokyo from 1937 to 1945.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] A well-connected man of the 20th century (2013)
  • Author(s): Wood, Donald C. Yoshida Saburo
  • Journal Title: Kyoto Journal Volume: Vol.78
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 日本の「田舎」で人類学的に暮らすこと吉田三郎と私の「ボアズ的実験」 (2013)
  • Author(s): Wood,Donald C
  • Organizer: 日本文化人類学会第47回研究大会
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Remarks] Wood,Donald C,.「血今人」との不思議な縁血吉田三郎と私」秋田魁新聞2012年10月,p,10
• [Remarks] Wood,Donald C,.生活し研究する秋田の社会経済変化-血「小子化」に直面する幼稚園.東北大学文学部、東北人類学談話会、仙台、2009年7月21日