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I removed the article from Category:Japanese folklore because I think the stories about Jingoro are in a different class entirely. The Japanese Wikipedia, while not mentioning the story of the woman and the mirror, does say that he is the subject of rakugo and kodan. These are professional entertainment forms, more Hollywood than Aesop. If anyone knows of real folk tales about Jingoro, please reinstate the article in the category. I'd like to learn more about the topic. Fg2 10:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have to disagree with the idea that Hidari Jingoro is not considered folklore. Folklore is the lore or common knowledge of the folk, so I don't see how this doesn't fit the definition. If we're going by what form the stories take when presented, then we can't count characters like Okiku or Oiwa as folklore either, since they're part of Noh plays. Yet they both are decidedly Japanese folklore. Shikino 01:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)