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Japan Studies: Japanese Folklore : Beliefs / Religious Rites
The Supernatural
In Memorial Library Regular Stacks
Japanese ghosts & demons : art of the supernatural by Call Number: N7352 J36 1985 (Art Library)ISBN: 0807611263
Ghosts and the Japanese : cultural experience in Japanese death legends by Call Number: GR340 I868 1994ISBN: 0874211794
Japanese Demon Lore by Call Number: GR340 R35 2010
Daruma : the founder of Zen in Japanese art and popular culture by Call Number: DS821 M43 1987
The seven tengu scrolls : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism by Call Number: GR830 T3 W34 2012- Tengu : the shamanic and esoteric origins of the Japanese martial arts by Call Number: GR830 T3 K58 2011
Supernatural and mysterious Japan : spirits, hauntings, and paranormal phenomena by Call Number: BF1472 J3 R67 1996ISBN: 4900737372
The Concept of Goddess by Call Number: BL325 F4 C65 1996Contains "The Mistress of the animals in Japan: Yamanokami" by Carmen Blacker- The witch in history : essays in honor of Katharine M. Briggs by Call Number: BF1566 W7373 1996Contains "Animal witchcraft in Japan" by Carmen Blacker
Treatment of the Supernatural in J History
Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai by Call Number: GR340 F67 2009ISBN: 0520253620
When tengu talk : Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the other world by Call Number: B5244 H474 H36 2008
Civilization and monsters : spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan by Call Number: DS822.3 F54 1999ISBN: 0822324180
Articles
Anderson, Richard W. 1995. “Vengeful Ancestors and Animal Spirits: Personal Narratives of the Supernatural in a Japanese New Religion.” Western Folklore 54.2: 113-140.
Hori, Ichiro. 1959. “Japanese Folk-Beliefs.” American Anthropologist 61.3: 405–24.
Knight, Catherine. 2008. “The Moon Bear as a Symbol of Yama: Its Significance in the Folklore of Upland Hunting in Japan.” Asian Ethnology 67.1: 79–101.
Norbeck, Edward. 1955. “Yakudoshi, a Japanese Complex of Supernaturalistic Beliefs,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 11.2: 105-120.
Yoshimura, Ayako. 2005. “Kanashibari—Japanese “Old Hag”: The Case Study of Self-Analysis on Personal Experiences with the Supernatural.” Culture & Tradition 27: 76–93.
McFarland, H. Neill. 1986. Feminine Motifs in Bodhidharma Symbology in Japan. Asian Folklore Studies 45.2: 167–91.
Punsmann, Henry. 1962. Daruma, a Symbol of Luck. Folklore Studies 21: 241–44.
Zeng, Kangmin. 1996. Prayer, Luck, and Spiritual Strength: The Desecularization of Entrance Examination Systems in East Asia. Comparative Education Review 40.3:264–79.
Religious Traditions
In Memorial Library Regular Stacks
A History of Japanese religion by Call Number: BL2202.3 N5513 2001
Religions of Japan: Many Traditions within One Sacred Way by Call Number: BL2202 E183 1984 (Mem Lib) ; BP130.2 D46 1998 (Coll Lib Rm 1911)- The new religions of Japan : a bibliography of western-language materials by Call Number: BL2207.5 E2 1983 (Mem Ref; Mem Stk)
From Salvation to Spirituality : Popular religious movements in modern Japan by Call Number: BL2208.5 S55 2004
Religion and national identity in the Japanese context by Call Number: BL2202.3 R45 2002
Enduring Identities: the guise of Shinto in contemporary Japan by Call Number: BL2220 N45 2000
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan by Call Number: (Use ILL to request a copy)ISBN: 9780415323185Publication Date: 2007
Intersecting Journeys : the anthropology of pilgrimage and tourism by Call Number: BL619 P5 I67 2004Includes “The Kyoto tax strike : Buddhism, Shinto, and tourism in Japan” by Nelson H. H. Graburn
The mandala of the mountain : Shugendō and folk religion by Call Number: BQ5125 M3 M59 2005
Shugendō : essays on the structure of Japanese folk religion by Call Number: BQ8822 M582 2001ISBN: 093951205X- The catalpa bow : a study of shamanistic practices in Japan by Call Number: BL2211 S38 B55ISBN: 0043980082
Shots in the Dark : Japan, Zen, and the West by Call Number: GV1188 J3 Y3313 2009- Namazu-e and their themes; an interpretative approach to some aspects of Japanese folk religion by Call Number: GR745 O8Publication Date: 1964
