Background
He was the son of a wealthy farming family from Tōno, Iwate, and attended Shiritsu Tetsugakukan (now Toyo University) and then graduated with a degree in literature from Waseda University in 1905.
佐々木喜善
He was the son of a wealthy farming family from Tōno, Iwate, and attended Shiritsu Tetsugakukan (now Toyo University) and then graduated with a degree in literature from Waseda University in 1905.
Waseda University.
In 1908 he became acquainted with Kunio Yanagita, and Sasaki began to collaborate with Yanagita on collecting the oral traditions and tales of Iwate Prefecture. In his later years he became friends with the poet Kenji Miyazawa with whom he shared his discoveries. Sasaki suffered from respiratory problems and died at the age of 47.
Professionally, Sasaki published a number of books of collected folktales and customs.