folktale

Japanese: folktale
folktale

…The same can be said for folk tales and fairy tales. Furthermore, the word folk tale is widely used today, but it is actually an abbreviation of folktale, or folk tale.
[Various characteristics]
The story itself has a complete form.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "folktale" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈民譚〉や〈童話〉もそうである。さらにはまた〈民話〉の語は,今日広くに用いられているが,これはfolktale,すなわち〈民間説話〉の略称である。
[さまざまな特性]
 物語そのものが,完結した形式を備えている。…

※「folktale」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Folk taxonomy (English spelling)

>>:  Folk rock

Recommend

Gondwanaland - Gondwana continent (English spelling)

A supercontinent that existed in the Southern Hem...

Ave Maria (English spelling) Ave Maria [Latin]

(1) A prayer of the Catholic Church. It is called ...

Bonnet monkey

This Old World monkey of the Cercopithecidae famil...

Face-show performance - Face-show performance

〘 noun 〙 = Kaomiseshibai (face-showing performance...

General machinery - Ippankikai

Machinery is a type of machinery that is used in ...

Partial Story - Ichibusuto

… [Wages for non-strikers] This is not an issue o...

Yellow belt - Otaige

A yellow, pus-like, pathological discharge from th...

Morito Incident

This is a literary scandal involving Morito Tatsu...

tan

… [Trigonometric ratios] In a right-angled triang...

Toyosato [town] - Toyosato

A town in Inukami County, central Shiga Prefecture...

Red-rumped swallow - Red-rumped swallow

A passerine bird of the swallow family (illustrati...

Electromagnet - Electric magnet

A magnet that is magnetized by electric current, ...

Private part - Kisaibe

The private servants of the empress in ancient Jap...

Yamajiso

An annual plant of the Lamiaceae family. It grows ...

Tosa School

This is the school of painting that inherited the...