Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings

ISBN-13: 9781873410929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 366 str.

Carmen Blacker;Carmen Blacker

Opis

Special areas: religion, myth and folklore; and biographies. This volume forms part of the major new series, published by Curzon Press under the Japan Library imprint, featuring the collected writings of many of the most outstanding western scholars who have been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the last half century. Developed in close collaboration with Carmen Blacker, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of their writings, thematically structured around essays, including published and unpublished conference and symposium papers, contributions to refereed journals, chapters from multi-author volumes, translations and book reviews, as well as newspaper and more broadly based general-interest articles and commentaries as available. A full introductory section, written by the author, reviewing her association and historical ties with Japan as well as specialist interests, prefaces each volume. Thus, for the first time in scholarly publishing, this series makes available a comprehensive collection of the author's lifetime output (other than single-author volumes) that might otherwise be lost or dispersed.

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

Spis treści

1: Religion, Myth & Folklore; 1: ? The Language of Birds; 2: ? Paradise at the Beginning of Time: an Intimation of the Enlightened State; 3: ? Two Shinto Myths: the Golden Age and the Chosen People; 4: ? The Snake Woman in Japanese Myth and Legend; 5: ? The Angry Ghost in Japan; 6: ? The Seer as a Healer in Japan; 7: ? Divination and Oracles in Japan; 8: ? The Shinza or God-seat in the Daij?sai: Throne, Bed or Incubation Couch?; 9: ? The Divine Boy in Japanese Buddhism; 10: ? Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore; 11: 11 ? Symbolism of the Divine Guest in Shingon Ritual; 12: ? The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family; 13: ? Forgotten Practices of the Past: Kaempfer's Strange Description of the Japanese Emperor; 14: ? The Religious Traveller in the Edo Period; 15: ? The Disguised Wandering Saint: an Example of the Stranger in Folklore; 16: ? Initiation in the Shugend?: the Passage Through the Ten States of Existence; 2: Portraits & Recollections; 17: ? Recollections of Baba Tatsui's Elementary Grammar; 18: ? Intent of Courtesy: a Recollection of Arthur Waley; 19: ? A Room with a Gourd: Recollections of Osaragi Jiro; 20: ? Marie Stopes and Japan; 21: ? The Two Piggotts: Sir Francis Taylor Piggott and Major General F.S.G. Piggott; 22: ? Minakata Kumagusu, 1867-1941: a Genius now Recognized; 23: ? Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956; 24: ? Laurence Oliphant and Japan, 1858-1888; 25: ? Christmas Humphreys and Japan; 26: ? Impressions of a Japanese University; 27: ? Three Great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow; 3: Book Reviews; 28: ? Dr Willis in Japan: British Medical Pioneer 1862-1877; 29: ? A Diplomat's Wife in Japan: Sketches at the Turn of the Century; 30: ? Zen and the Ways; 31: ? Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan; 32: ? Edmund Blunden and Japan: the History of a Relationship; 33: ? Shashin Gy?ja Jitsukaga no Shugend?; 34: ? Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; 35: ? Shinto: the Fountainhead of Japan; 36: ? Y?sei Jiten (‘Dictionary of Fairies'); 37: ? Selected Writings of Nichiren; 38: ? Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

O autorze

Carmen Blacker