Japanese peasant songs
By: compiled and annotated by John F. Embree, with the assistance of Ella Embree and Yukuo Uyehara.
Contributors: Embree, Ella.; Uyehara, Yukuo.
Series: Memoirs of the American Folklore Society,
Publisher: American Folklore Society
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Folk songs, Japanese.; Japanese poetry -- Translations into English.
Notes: "Works referred to": p. 91-92.
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"The present collection of songs from the single country of Kuma in Kyūshū consists of over a hundred texts transcribed in the village of Suye ... The Japanese text ... is given in the local dialect, romanization following the traditional Hepburn system ... Most of the texts were transcribed by Ella Embree ... The final [English] translations were worked out ... with the assistance of Professor Yukuo Uyehara."--p. 10-11.