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1 online resource |
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Foreword / Mami Mizutori, SISJAC -- Preface / Hugh Cortazzi -- Introduction: Carmen Blacker: friend, scholar and wife / Michael Loewe -- List of contributors -- List of plates -- Map of Japan -- Japan's prefectures. Part 1 Carmen Blacker as seen by her friends : Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924-2009: a biographical memoir / James McMullen -- Biographical portrait / Peter Kornicki -- Memories of Carmen Blacker / Yokoyama Toshio -- Words from Hugh Cortazzi at Carmen Blacker's memorial meeting. Part 2 Selected extracts from Carmen Blacker's diaries and other autobiographical writings : Carmen Blacker's "introduction" to her Collected Writings -- Introducing Carmen Blacker's diaries / Hugh Cortazzi -- Extracts from the diaries. Part 3 Selected biographical portraits by Carmen Blacker : Three great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow -- Marie Stopes -- Arthur Waley -- Minakata Kumagusu -- Yoshio Markino -- Christmas Humphreys -- Cambridge women. Part 4 Selected academic writings : The shinza or god-seat in the Daijōsai: throne bed, or incubation couch? -- Divination and oracles in Japan -- The goddess emerges from her cave: Fujita Himiko and her dragon palace family -- "The exiled warrior and the hidden village": a possible solution to the enigma of the Heike-densetsu -- Extracts from legends of Heike Villages: the fugitive warrior as ancestor -- The language of birds -- The angry ghost in Japan. Part 5 Selected Carmen Blacker lectures : Remembering Carmen Blacker / Donald Keene -- A glimpse of the modestly literate picnic lovers of old Japan / Toshio Yokoyama -- Tsushima: Japan viewed from the margins -- archives, books, ginseng / Peter Kornicki -- Amaterasu's progress: the Ise Shrines and the public sphere of post-war Japan / John Breen -- Unofficial and commoner worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan / James McMullen. Part 6 A celebratory essay : The search for the numinous in Wordsworth and Coleridge: some hints from The Catalpa Bow / Hisaaki Yamanouchi. Appendix: Carmen's literary gift / compiled by Paul Norbury. Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known for her writings on religion, myth and folklore -most notably The Catalpa Bow. A third of the volume comprises extracts from her diaries covering more than forty years, with a plate section drawn from her photographic archive - an opportunity for insight into her life and work |
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Blacker, Carmen
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Folklorists -- Biography
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Women folklorists -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Folklorists
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Women folklorists
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cortazzi, Hugh, editor
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McMullen, James, 1939- editor.
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Browning, Mary-Grace, editor
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| ISBN |
9781898823575 |
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189882357X |
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