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The term "" or sanjin, as understood in Japanese folklore, has come to be applied to a group, some scholars claim,〔Raja, 556.〕 of ancient, marginalized people, dating back to some unknown date during the Jomon period of Japanese history.〔Konagaya, 47.〕 The term itself has been translated as ''"Mountain People"'',〔 or as Dickins interprets the word, simply, ''"Woodsman"'',〔Dickins, 329.〕 but there is more to it than that. It is from texts recorded by historian Kunio Yanagita that introduced, through their legends and tales, of the concept of Kamikakushi, or, being ''"spirited away"'',〔Foster, 55.〕 into Japanese popular culture. ==Tono Monogatari== According to Yanagita, the Yamabito were ''"descendants of a real, separate aboriginal race of people who were long ago forced into the mountains by the Japanese who then populated the plains"''〔Figal, 139.〕 during the Jomon era. Yanagita wrote down these folktales in the book ''Tono Monogatari'', though as author Sadler notes: :The book is a classic of folklore, but it has none of the usual trappings of a volume of folktales. There is no attempt to classify. There are no headings and no categories. The book is a ramble, and a hodge-podge. You will find fairy tales and legends and even an occasional myth in it; but you will also find the stuff of the tabloid newspapers: ''Distraught youth murders mother with sharpened scythe'' or, ''Hayseed knifes mom.''〔Sadler, 217.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「yamabito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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