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Kindaichi 1931

Kindaichi Kyōsuke 金田一京助 (1931). アイヌ叙事詩ユーカラ概説[An outline of the Ainu heroic epic yukar]. 龍吟社, Tokyo.

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1. Kindaichi Kyōsuke's parallel scholarly activity in the 1930s–1940s — editing transcriptions made by Kubodera Itsuhiko from speakers across Hokkaido — produced the main pre-war inventory of heroic-epic texts ; . no page The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data
2. Kindaichi's yukar grammar established the five-syllable line as the canonical metrical unit , a description subsequently refined by Okuda's two-metre analysis distinguishing syllable-count from accent-oriented verse ; the metrical system is treated in . 165 The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data
3. noted the absence of systematic rhyme; , following Philippi (1979), confirms that repetition in Ainu poetry largely reflects the small vowel inventory and widespread reduplication rather than a prosodic constraint ‹contested›. no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
4. The first, syllable-count orientation, targets five syllables per line as basic (four-to-seven is the attested range), as described by and ; it is characteristic of lyric songs (yaysama). 165 The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures