『後狩詞記』

In 1909, Kunio Yanagida wrote the first book on folklore-related topics, Gogari Shiji Ki. It was the first publication of its kind in Japanese folklore, and its entire contents were devoted to the hunting folklore of Shiiba village.
The year before publication, Mr Yanagida, then Counsellor of the Bureau of Legislation, visited Shiiba Village in Miyazaki Prefecture and spent five days with the then Mayor Jun Nakase in the village, investigating the hunting customs of wild boar and deer. He also discovered a 'Hunting Scroll' in the house of village councillor Tokuzo Shiiba. The book is a written record of that time and consists of two parts: hearsay material and an introduction to the "Hunting Scroll" document.
The detailed contents consist of an 'Introduction', 'Land Nomenclature', 'Hunting Language', 'Hunting Techniques', 'Various Oral Traditions' and 'Appendix: Hunting Scrolls'.
It can be read from the preface that the book was named after the Muromachi Period's 'Kari Shiki' (Records of Hunting). The first half of the book is a dictionary-like description of hunting customs, and its value as a source of information on hunting folklore is well known. However, the vocabulary of burning fields is also written down, as well as court cases such as disputes over ownership of game caught during hunting, and the book should be reviewed as a collection of materials that can be regarded as a journal of modern mountain village life.