Carmen Blacker, scholar of Japanese religion, myth and folkelore : writing and reflections /
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.