On Matrimonial Migration in Rural Japanese Highland Communities

Abstract

1. Since the forthcoming reports are based on the survey concerning the feature and activity of the Peachboy and of other characters of the tale, an effort was made to identify the text of the tale as remembered by the children subjected to the survey.
2. The source from which the children bad aquired the tale was firstly picture-books, secondly the mother and thirdly the father.
3. Texts of the tale as supplied by 183 college students from their memory showed various differences in each point. They were analyzed and the most popular form of the tale was formulated.
4. To the children under school-age, a specified form of the tale was told immediately before the survey. But the detailed specifications concerning the particular points to be taken up in the survey were carefully omitted from the narration.