Record details

• ISBN: 0911745092
• ISBN: 9780911745092
• Physical Description: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
• Edition: New revised edition.
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : P. Bedrick Books, 1983.
• Distributor: Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row.
• Copyright: ©1982

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: page 142.

Formatted Contents Note:

[A Historical Survey] The Kojiki and the Nihongi -- Oh-kuni-nushi -- Suku-na-biko, the Dwarf God -- Yamato -- Conquest of Korea -- The Arrival of Buddhism -- Shotoku Daishi -- The Fumiwara Period -- The Feud of the Tairas and Minamotos -- Yoshi-iye -- Kiyomoro -- Tametome and Yoshitsune -- Battle of Dannoura -- Toyotomi -- Hideyoshi -- The Isolation of Japan -- Foreign Contacts.

[Creatures and Spirits] Tengu -- Oni -- Kappa -- The Snow Woman -- Love between Mortals and Spirits -- Animals Transformed into Humans -- A Reincarnation Story -- The Self-seeking Samurai -- Mother-Love -- The Wronged Servant Girl -- A Temple Ghost -- Malice Thwarted -- Buried Treasure -- Virtue Rewarded -- Hoichi's Ordeal.

[Heroes and Heroines] Momotaro -- Issun Boshi -- Kintaro -- Raiko, or Yorimitsu -- Tawara Toda -- Tametomo -- Benkei and Yoshitsune -- Atsumori and Kumagai -- The Forty-Seven Ronin -- Heroines -- Heroes of Sumo.

[Men and Animals] The White Hare of oki -- The Tongue-cut Sparrow -- The Grateful Dog -- The Grateful Bee -- Mandarin Ducks -- Filial piety -- Ikezuki, the Horse -- Tametomo and his Dog -- Pots for Hire -- The Badger and the Rabbit -- Malicious Cats -- The Badger and the Fox Cub -- The Badger-Kettle -- How the Jelly-fish lost its Bones -- Enmity between Monkeys and Crabs.

[Stories Old and New] Urashima -- The Woodcutter and the Fountain of Youth -- Gingko Trees -- Cherry Trees and Cucumbers -- A Taira Ghost -- The Woodcutters' Wens -- Benten, Bringer of Happiness -- The White Butterfly -- The Unusual Dowry.

[The Beliefs and Deities of Japan] Structure of Shinto -- Shinto and Buddhism -- The Torii - The Sakaki Tree -- Tengu and Oni -- Shrines and Curses -- Mirrors -- The Bell of Mugen -- The Ghost of O-Sono -- The Celibate Monk -- En No Shokaku -- Kobo Daishi -- Mito Komon -- Nichiren -- Images -- The Daibutsu -- Inari, the Rice God -- The Seven Gods of Luck -- The Shrine and the Carpenter.

[The Country and its Creation] Creation Myths -- Izanagi and Izanami -- Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess -- Susano, the Storm God -- Trees and Rocks -- Uke-mochi -- Fire Fade and Fire Flash -- The Hira Hurricane -- The Cherry and the Plum -- Ninigi and the Blossom Princess.

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