Initially, the so-called “Japanese myths” were a textual product of the Kojiki (712) and the Nihon Shoki (720). In the course of the centuries, these myths were altered, re-writ-teRead More →
Scholarship has rarely, if ever, treated Japan’s seven medi-eval historiographic Mirrors as a set. The Great Mirror, The New Mirror, and The Clear Mirror have typically been talkedRead More →
From the late nineteenth century until at least the end of the Second World War and the immediate postwar period-in a period marked by uncertainty and rapid development-East Asia wRead More →
At sometime between 1716 and 1729, the Osaka publish-er Shibukawa Seiemon published a box-set anthology of twenty-three otogizōshi-works of short medieval fiction-which he titled “Read More →
Japanese medieval musical treatises often provide engaging legends concerning the origins of bugaku suites, the graceful dances at the core of the repertory of Japanese “elegant muRead More →
This talk will look into practices surrounding the collection and trade of insects in early twentieth-century Taiwan. It will explore the origins and entanglement of a mass-fabricaRead More →
In the medieval period a comprehensive discourse on“heresy” began to develop within Japanese Shingon Buddhistcircles. This was mainly centered on the Tachikawalineage (Tachikawa-ryRead More →
In 1593 the Jesuit Mission Press in Amakusa published the rst translation of Aesop’s Fables in East Asia, Esopo no fabulas, in romanized orthography. A separate, but seemingly relRead More →
Most students of Japanese culture or comparative mythology are familiar with tales of the progenitor deities Izanagi and Izanami, or of Susano-o, rebellious scion of the next divinRead More →
