FOLKLORE IN JAPANESE LIFE AND CUSTOMS. by Oto, Tokihiko

Tokyo: Kokusai, Bunka, Shinkokai, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Series on Japanese Life and Culture. In tall wraps as issued; VERY GOOD COPY or better with a colored frontispiece. William Woodard's copy, Woodard was a pre-World War II missionary, and author of numerous works, on Japanese religion and a history of the Occupation. We purchased his library from the University of Oregon in 1989. Woodblock print by Azechi on front cover with drawings by Tadaichi Hayashi and Shigeo Miyashi plus another sixty or so photographic figures appended. Fold out map. Tall 8vo.