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Yamanba

Autore: Rossella Marangoni

Numero di pagine: 288

Nell’immaginario comune la figura della donna giapponese è ancora legata a quella della geisha. Eppure, nel corso della storia nipponica, le donne hanno dato prova di coraggio, resilienza e determinazione. Come la yamanba, la vecchia strega di montagna antropofaga, archetipo del male, sono state demonizzate, percepite come un Altro minaccioso. Ridotte al silenzio per secoli, hanno però ritrovato la voce ed elaborato strategie per sottrarsi al modello imposto di una femminilità sottomessa, docile, remissiva. Questo libro va alla scoperta degli indizi di ribellione e delle istanze di libertà nei comportamenti, nei miti, nella scrittura delle donne giapponesi che hanno fatto della loro mostruosità un gesto consapevole di rivolta: yamanba per sempre.

Yamanba, the Mountain Witch

Autore: Clay Boutwell , Yumi Boutwell

Numero di pagine: 170

★For Upper Beginners Learning Japanese ★ Living in shadows and the in-between world of dreams and reality, yokai thrive in Japanese imagination. What are yokai? They are monsters, ghosts, unnatural beings, and even sentient household items. Yokai can be harmless and amusing, or they can be terrifying. Now you can learn about yokai and read stories of them while polishing your Japanese. ♥ ABOUT THIS VOLUME The 山姥(やまんば) is a scary youkai mountain witch. She eats whoever enters her mountain. In this volume, we’ll look at two legends involving the 山姥(やまんば). The first is about an ox-cart man (someone who made deliveries) who encountered a 山姥(やまんば). The second story is about a young priest who has three magic charms to protect him from the 山姥(やまんば). FEATURES Includes two full stories Each story is presented in three formats: 1) Sentence-by-Sentence with definition and commentary below 2) Japanese only (to test your reading ability) 3) English translation (to confirm your understanding) The Sentence-by Sentence section of each story presents a small chunk of the Japanese with furigana over the kanji and a complete glossary of all...

Onibaba

Autore: Rossella Marangoni

Numero di pagine: 97

Orchesse che divorano esseri umani nel cuore delle foreste, spettri femminili che terrorizzano in case diroccate, vecchie minacciose dalle orride sembianze, giovani mogli che rivelano la loro natura ferina: se la “mostruosità” femminile è presente in ogni mito, a tutte le latitudini, nell’immaginario maschile giapponese di ogni epoca acquisisce una connotazione ambigua, che affascina e che respinge. Cosa spaventa della donna, cosa minaccia? Perché è così massiccia la presenza di mostri femminili nel folclore giapponese? Questo libro vuole essere un viaggio nel mondo dei miti, delle fiabe e delle tradizioni teatrali giapponesi alla ricerca di qualche risposta, ma soprattutto di personaggi femminili inquietanti, ribelli, marginali. Mostri come noi.

Heaven Has a Face, So Does Hell

Autore: Stephen E. Marvin

Numero di pagine: 280

Two volumes showing the remarkable combination of superb artistry, sophisticated design and a lengthy history of continuous use that sets the masks of the Noh theatre of Japan apart from all others.

A Translation of Ryôjinhishô, a Compendium of Japanese Folk Songs (Imayô) from the Heian Period, 794-1185

Autore: Gladys E. Nakahara

Numero di pagine: 376

What CHOICE says: The Ryoojinhishoo provides rare insight into the lives and culture of common people in the Heian period. Songs of prostitutes, cormorant fishermen, children, gamblers, and mothers voice timeless emotions. The other scholarly monograph in English on the Ryoojinhishoo, Yung-Hee Kim's outstanding Songs to Make the Dust Dance (CH, Jul'94), provides a translation of 222 of the extant songs and gives a full account of Emperor Go-Shirakawa's relationship to the collection. Nakahara includes translations of all 571 extant songs, and her introduction sets the songs in the context of a masterfully reconstructed history of the folk-song genre. The previously untranslated songs include many on Buddhist themes. These songs are a priceless record of how ordinary people in the Heian period understood Buddhism; indeed, their existence refutes the notion that popular Buddhism began in the Kamakura period. Nakahara's translations, accompanied by romanized versions of the original, are fluid and well annotated. This fine work is both scholarly and imminently accessible in style and content. When the print-run of this hard-cover edition is exhausted, some press should consider it...

Japan

Autore: Chris Rowthorn

Numero di pagine: 1032

Offers a huge range of affordable accommodation, shopping and eating options - Chapter on language - Detailed maps - Performing arts - Travel within the country - Arts and architecture - Religion.

License to Play

Autore: Michal Daliot-bul

Numero di pagine: 232

This book explores the intricate and dynamic relations between culture and play in Japan. By addressing play as a function of culture, the authors inquiry starts where biology and most psychological studies of play leave off. Using both historical and synchronic perspectives, the manuscript offers a theoretically informed journey to better understand the ways formal and informal cultural institutions as well as social ideologies shape and influence how people play and think about play and the ways in which cultural repertoires can be altered, negotiated, or invented through play.

Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography

Numero di pagine: 1116

Vols. 1-20, 24, include a separately paged section: Abstracts of geological and geographical papers published in Japan.

The Hundred Poets Compared

Autore: Henk Herwig , Joshua S. Mostow

Numero di pagine: 264

"The Hundred Poets Compared discusses a print series by three of the most famous Japanese print artists of the 19th century: Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. This series of one hundred prints is known as the Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Companions of the Ogura One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) and constitutes a typical example of serial graphics from the world of Ukiyo-e." "Each print compares one of the poems from the most-beloved collection of Japanese poetry, The One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Hyahunin isshu), with a scene from Japanese history or theatre."--BOOK JACKET.

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