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Kindaichi 1933

Kindaichi Kyōsuke 金田一京助 (1933). アイヌ文学[Ainu literature]. Kawade Shobō 河出書房, Tokyo.

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1. His primary interest lay in the oral-literature tradition — particularly the heroic epics known as yukar — and his grammatical work was conceived as an instrument for that philological programme . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. 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
3. and Kubodera classified the corpus primarily by protagonist type (human vs divine vs culture-hero). no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures