Mountain Witches : Yamauba /: Yamauba. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Noriko T. Reider.
• Authors: Reider, Noriko T
• Contents: <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-vii' class='sequence-1'>Contents <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xi' class='sequence-2'>List of Figures <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xiii' class='sequence-3'>Acknowledgments <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-3' class='sequence-4'>Introduction: Yamauba's Topos, Archetype, and Gender <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-4' class='sequence-5'>Yamauba as Yōkai <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-5' class='sequence-6'>The Term Yamauba (Yamanba or Yamamba) <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-7' class='sequence-7'>Yamauba's Topos: Mountains Where Eerie Things Happen <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-10' class='sequence-8'>Appearance of Yamauba in the Muromachi Period <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-11' class='sequence-9'>Appearance of Yamauba and the Role of Yamabushi <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-12' class='sequence-10'>Yamabushi Subjugating Yamauba <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-14' class='sequence-11'>Yamauba as Archetype <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-17' class='sequence-12'>Yamauba's Gender <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-19' class='sequence-13'>Yamauba's Features <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-20' class='sequence-14'>Organization of the Book <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-23' class='sequence-15'>1. Man-Eating, Helping, Shape-Shifting Yamauba: Yamauba's Duality <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-24' class='sequence-16'>Yamauba versus Oni/Oni-Women <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-25' class='sequence-17'>Cannibalism, the Destructive Side of Yamauba's Duality, and the Power of Transformation <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-26' class='sequence-18'>'Kuwazu nyōbō' ('The Wife Who Does Not Eat') <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-29' class='sequence-19'>'Ushikata to yamauba' ('The Ox-Leader and the Yamauba') <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-30' class='sequence-20'>'Sanmai no ofuda' ('Three Charms') <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-31' class='sequence-21'>Helper and Fortune Giver: The Positive Side of Yamauba's Duality <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-32' class='sequence-22'>'Komebuku Awabuku' ('Komebuku and Awabuku') <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-33' class='sequence-23'>Female Cohabitant in Oni's House <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-34' class='sequence-24'>Devouring and Helping Yamauba: Two Sides of the Same Coin <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-35' class='sequence-25'>Hanayo no hime (Blossom Princess) of Otogizōshi <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-37' class='sequence-26'>The Noh Play Yamanba, a Starting Point <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-38' class='sequence-27'>Yamanba's Oni Image <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-41' class='sequence-28'>The Noh Play Kurozuka (Adachigahara): The Crossroads of Yamauba and Oni-Women <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-43' class='sequence-29'>Kurozuka (Adachigahara), Oni, and Women <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-45' class='sequence-30'>Two Sides of the Oni-Woman <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-46' class='sequence-31'>Yamanba in Kurozuka <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-51' class='sequence-32'>Concluding Remarks <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-53' class='sequence-33'>2. Mother Yamauba and Weaving: Childbirth and Bloodsucking, Spinning and Spiders <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-54' class='sequence-34'>Yamauba Worship <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-55' class='sequence-35'>Mother of Divine Children and Anthropophagy <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-57' class='sequence-36'>Legends of Yamauba on Mt. Akiha <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-60' class='sequence-37'>Yamauba monogatari: Yamauba Legends on Mt. Hongū <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-63' class='sequence-38'>Yamauba as Mother of Kintarō <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-73' class='sequence-39'>Childbirth, Bloodsucking, and Oni <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-74' class='sequence-40'>Strings, Spinning, and Spiders <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-75' class='sequence-41'>Similarities between Yamauba and Spiders <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-77' class='sequence-42'>Oni versus Tsuchigumo, Yamagumo, and Yamauba <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-79' class='sequence-43'>Feared and Worshipped Yamauba <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-81' class='sequence-44'>3. Reading Minds and Telling Futures: 'Yamauba and the Cooper, ' 'The Smile of a Mountain Witch, ' and Throne of Blood <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-82' class='sequence-45'>Mind-Reading Yamauba: 'Yamauba to okeya' and Satori <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-84' class='sequence-46'>Premodern Setsuwa of Mind Reading <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-87' class='sequence-47'>Retelling and Re-creating Yamauba Stories <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-89' class='sequence-48'>Possible Sources of Ōba's Mind-Reading Yamauba <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-92' class='sequence-49'>Selfless Yamauba of 'The Smile of a Mountain Witch' <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-93' class='sequence-50'>Fortune-Telling Yamauba: The Old Woman in 'Naranashi tori' ('Picking Wild Pears') <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-94' class='sequence-51'>Shamanistic Yamauba in Hanayo no hime <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-95' class='sequence-52'>The Witch in Throne of Blood <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-96' class='sequence-53'>From the Woman in Kurozuka to the Witch of Throne of Blood <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-98' class='sequence-54'>Desires, Impermanence, and the Wheel <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-100' class='sequence-55'>From Yamauba in the Noh Play Yamanba to the Witch of Throne of Blood <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-101' class='sequence-56'>Mind Reading, Future Telling, and Re-creation <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-103' class='sequence-57'>Yamauba and Oni-Women, Revisited <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-105' class='sequence-58'>Legends of Yasaburō Basa <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-106' class='sequence-59'>Yasaburō Basa as Oni-Woman <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-107' class='sequence-60'>Datsueba's Association with Yasaburō Basa and Yamauba <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-110' class='sequence-61'>Medieval Prototypical Female Features <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-112' class='sequence-62'>Commonalities between the Yasaburō Basa Story and Premodern Setsuwa <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-114' class='sequence-63'>Ibaraki Dōji, Shuten Dōji, and Yasaburō Basa <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-116' class='sequence-64'>Yasaburō Basa's Influence on the Noh Play Yamanba <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-117' class='sequence-65'>'Yamauba no nakōdo' ('Yamauba Go-Between'), a Variant of Yasaburō Basa <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-119' class='sequence-66'>Concluding Remarks <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-121' class='sequence-67'>Yamauba's Antisocial Behavior and Dementia <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-124' class='sequence-68'>Gluttonous Yamauba and Dementia <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-125' class='sequence-69'>Mukashibanashi 'Obasute-yama' <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-128' class='sequence-70'>'Obasute-yama' in Other Literary Tradition <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-131' class='sequence-71'>Did the Custom of 'Obasute-yama' Really Exist? <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-133' class='sequence-72'>'Obasute-yama' from a Poem to Narratives: Creation, Dissemination, and Transformation <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-134' class='sequence-73'>Aging, Yamauba, and Healthy Life Expectancy <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-137' class='sequence-74'>Yamauba and Village Markets <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-139' class='sequence-75'>Market, Shibuya, and Yamanba-gyaru <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-141' class='sequence-76'>Yamanba-gyaru Fashion and Ganguro <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-144' class='sequence-77'>Yamanba-gyaru Disappear from Shibuya <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-145' class='sequence-78'>Yamauba and Yamaubaesque <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-146' class='sequence-79'>Yubaba in the Film Spirited Away <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-149' class='sequence-80'>Yamauba in the Manga Hyakkiyakō shō <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-152' class='sequence-81'>'Holy Man of Mt. Koya' <div class='ch-level-3' class='start-page-155' class='sequence-82'>'Yamauba' <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-156' class='sequence-83'>Yamauba in Poetry: Watashi wa Anjuhimeko de aru (I Am Anjuhimeko) <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-162' class='sequence-84'>Conclusion <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-167' class='sequence-85'>Japanese and Chinese Names and Terms <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-179' class='sequence-86'>Notes <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-197' class='sequence-87'>References <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-211' class='sequence-88'>About the Author <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-213' class='sequence-89'>Index.
• Publisher Details: Logan : Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Copyright Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Folklore & Mythology; History -- Asia -- Japan; Literary Criticism -- Asian -- Japanese
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781646420551
• Related ISBNs: 9781646420544
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