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- 2From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe DEITY WIND spread anciently and widely; contrary to our common assumption, it is not unique to Japan. A component in the cosmic bulk of monsoon-deities, the Deity Wind is an analogue of the pneumatic attribute of...
- 3From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe death of Japanese empress Suiko (r. A.D. 592-628), a historical personage, was portrayed in passages of the Nihon shoki with reference to symbolisms of the sun-hiding mythologem. These passages contribute what is...
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- 6From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSANO KENJI [phrase omitted], TANIGUCHI MITSUGI [phrase omitted], NAKAGOME MUTSUKO [phrase omitted], and FURUIE SHINPEI [phrase omitted], Editors. Gendai minzokugaku nyumon [phrase omitted] [An introduction to modern...
- 7From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHIRAIZUMI KIYOSHI. Trans. by Sey Nishimura and committee. Ise City, Japan: Seisei Kikaku, 1997; viii + 219 + xi pages. Introduction by the translation committee, contents of all three volumes, name index, map, tables,...
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- 9From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChicago: The University of" Chicago Press, 2002. xvii+411 pages. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Paper US$20.00/14.00 [pounds sterling]; ISBN 0-226-62091-3. Cloth US$45.00/31.50 [pounds sterling]; ISBN...
- 10From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 66, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedTHE IDEA that the sky is made out of stone appears in folk and religious traditions all around our planet. I have discussed this idea, and briefly proposed that another idea--the' stone falling from sky" motif--offers a...
- 11From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe classification of all places of Shinto worship as shrines does not do justice to their varying functions. The use of the word 'shrine' probably arose as a way of making distinct Shinto buildings from Buddhist ones,...
- 12From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The Japanese sun-hiding myth implies that the early Japanese believed the sky was made of stone. Gravel-beds at Shinto temples might have been physical manifestations of the belief. Comparative studies show...
- 13From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedVARIOUS ARCHAIC peoples believed that warmth of the sky's brightest star, Sirius,' combined with that of the sun to produce summer's heat. Sirius is the "Dog Star" of the constellation Canis Major (the "Larger Dog"), so...