The term yamabito (山人) or sanjin, as understood in Japanese folklore, has come to be applied to a group, some scholars claim, of ancient, marginalized people, dating back to some unknown date during the Jōmon period of the history of Japan. The term itself has been translated as "mountain people", or as Dickins interprets the word as "woodsman", but there is more to it than that.
The term yamabito (山人) or sanjin, as understood in Japanese folklore, has come to be applied to a group, some scholars claim, of ancient, marginalized people, dating back to some unknown date during the Jōmon period of the history of Japan. The term itself has been translated as "mountain people", or as Dickins interprets the word as "woodsman", but there is more to it than that.
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