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Shinobu Orikuchi

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Gender Female
Death71 years ago
Other name折口 信夫
Books The Book of the Dead
Job Novelist
Ethnologist
Date of birth February 11,1887
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Kizu Village
DiedShinanomachi
Tokyo
Japan
Date of died September 3,1953
Education Kokugakuin University Shibuya Campus
Keio University
Movies/Shows The Book of the Dead
Place of burialGansenji, Osaka, Japan
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Date of Upd.
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Shinobu Orikuchi Life story


Shinobu Orikuchi, also known as Chōkū Shaku, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named "Orikuchiism", which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō.

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