Ishii Masami

Born in 1958. Professor emeritus at Tokyo Gakukei University, where he specializes in Japanese literature and folklore studies. Works include Tōno monogatari no tanjō (The Birth of The Legends of Tōno), Yanagita Kunio: Tōno monogatari (Yanagita Kunio: The Legends of Tōno), and Zusetsu: Tōno monogatari (The Illustrated World of The Legends of Tōno).