Muchos libros se han escrito sobre la mitología y el folclore japonés, pero estos por lo general carecen de una sistematización mínima. Esta obra narra las historias con gran concisión, buscando más establecer las conexiones, conceptuales y religiosas, que existen entre ellas. C…
Japan has a wealth of ghosts and monsters, collectively called yokai, which are totally unknown in the West. The bizarre and wonderful folklore of Japan includes giant corpse-eating rabbits, flaming pigs that steal human genitals, perverse water goblins, blood sucking trees, a d…
This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--i…
by Ō, Yasumaro
fromTranslations from the Asian classics
Las máscaras de Dios / Joseph Campbell. - v.4
