Handbook of Japanese Mythology

Handbook of Japanese Mythology
Author: Michael Ahskenazi
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195332629

Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2003.

Handbook of Japanese Mythology

Handbook of Japanese Mythology
Author: Michael Ashkenazi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2003-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1576074684

An introductory guide to the mythology of Japan—one of the most pervasive yet least understood facets of Japanese culture. Handbook of Japanese Mythology makes it easy to travel this vast yet little-known mythological landscape. The book reveals the origins of Japan's myths in the very different realms of Buddhism, Shinto, and folklore, and explores related mythologies of the Ainu and Okinawan cultures and recent myths arising from Japan's encounters with modernization. It then offers vivid retellings of the central Shinto and Buddhist myths, plus descriptions of major historical figures, icons, rituals, and events. For students or long-time enthusiasts, it is the ideal guide for investigating Japanese reverence for the sun, the imperial family, and the virtues of purity and loyalty. Readers will also learn why sumo wrestlers stomp before each match, how a fussy baby creates thunder, why Japan has a god for soccer, and much more.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: E. M. Berens
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

"Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome " is a comprehensive mythology collection, presenting all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. The author, thoroughly details each Greek and Roman god, goddess, hero, demi-god and creature and gives the reader a clear and succinct idea of the religious beliefs of the ancients. An exceptional book for those interested in Greek or Roman mythology.

Handbook of Japanese Mythology

Handbook of Japanese Mythology
Author: Michael Ashkenazi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2003
Genre: Mythology, Japanese
ISBN:

Provides an introduction to the mythology of Japan, viewing the myths in their social, historical, and cultural context.

Handbook of Chinese Mythology

Handbook of Chinese Mythology
Author: Lihui Yang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195332636

Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.

Japanese Mythology A to Z

Japanese Mythology A to Z
Author: Jeremy Roberts
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2009
Genre: Japan
ISBN: 1438128029

Suitable for those with an interest in mythology or Japanese culture, this title covers: the early Japanese deities who created the world and the later deities who protect it; Kami, the spirits of all aspects of the living world; animals and mythological creatures; demons and bogeymen; and, shrines and other sacred places.

Handbook of Native American Mythology

Handbook of Native American Mythology
Author: Dawn Elaine Bastian
Publisher: Handbooks of World Mythology
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195342321

Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2004, in series: Handbooks of world mythology.

The Book of Yokai

The Book of Yokai
Author: Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2015-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520271017

Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture. It also invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity. Ê

Japanese Mythology

Japanese Mythology
Author: Juliet Piggott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1969
Genre: Mythology, Japanese
ISBN: 9780600021131

Japanese mythology is an amalgam of dashing heroes, supernatural beings and intelligent animals-of love and hate, gratitude and resentment, gentleness and cruelty.

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema
Author: Daisuke Miyao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199731667

This book provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under globalization and the so-called period of crisis of cinema under digitalization.