- The term
yamabito (山人) or sanjin, as
understood in ****anese folklore, has come to be
applied to a group, some
scholars claim, of ancient, marginalized...
- its
Chinese origin and
encouraged him to use the more ****anese-sounding
yamabito (山人, lit. 'mountain man') instead.
Atsutane tried to
indicate this preference...
- Yanagita], Inscript, 2013 遊動論：柳田国男と山人[On Nomadization :
Kunio Yanagita and
Yamabito people], Bungeishunjusha, 2014 帝国の構造[The
Structure of Empire], Seitosha...
- to
borrow them for a party, are
referred to as ijin. So are the
uncanny yamabito or 'mountain people', said to be
seven or
eight feet tall, to be covered...
