The Horse: Folklore and Legend

The longest of Minakata Kumagusu's zodiac essays surveys the horse in myth, history, superstition and psychology: horse legends of India, China, Europe and Japan; kinds and nature; folk customs; and a famous run of digressions on clever horses, flatulence, tombs and ancestor worship. With an appendix on the White Horse Festival of the Japanese court.

This edition is a complete, unabridged New English Translation made directly from the Japanese, with endnotes identifying sources, persons and period terms.

AI-assisted translation.