Carmen Blacker : scholar of Japanese religion, myth and folkelore : writings and reflections / edited by Hugh Cortazzi ; with James McMullen & Mary-Grace Browning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortazzi, Hugh, editor.

Browning, Mary-Grace, editor.

McMullen, James, 1939- editor.

Blacker, Carmen, honoree.

Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, sponsoring body.

Japan Society (London, England), sponsoring body.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blacker, Carmen.

Japanologists--Biography.

Japanologists.

Japan--Religion.

Japan.

Japan--Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Corrected title: Carmen Blacker, scholar of Japanese religion, myth and folklore

Place of Publication:

Folkestone : Renaissance Books, 2017.

Summary:

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts from the author s diaries covering a period of more than forty years, together with a plate section drawn from the her extensive photographic archive, thus providing a rare opportunity to gain a personal insight into the author s life and work. The volume includes a wide selection of writings from distinguished scholars such as Donald Keene and Peter Kornicki, and her former pupils James McMullen and John Breen in celebration of her work and legacy, or as contributors to the Carmen Blacker Lecture Series, together with a selection of various essays and papers by Carmen Blacker herself that have hitherto not been widely available. In addition to her scholarship, Carmen Blacker was also highly regarded for her work in promoting Japanese Studies at Cambridge and supported the revival of the Japan Society after the war and was its first editor. She served for many years on the Society s Council and gave a number of lectures.

Contents:

Foreword / Mami Mizutori, SISJAC

Preface / Hugh Cortazzi

Introduction: Carmen Blacker: friend, scholar and wife / Michael Loewe

List of contributors

List of plates

Map of Japan

Japan's prefectures. Part 1 Carmen Blacker as seen by her friends : Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924-2009: a biographical memoir / James McMullen

Biographical portrait / Peter Kornicki

Memories of Carmen Blacker / Yokoyama Toshio

Words from Hugh Cortazzi at Carmen Blacker's memorial meeting. Part 2 Selected extracts from Carmen Blacker's diaries and other autobiographical writings : Carmen Blacker's "introduction" to her Collected Writings

Introducing Carmen Blacker's diaries / Hugh Cortazzi

Extracts from the diaries. Part 3 Selected biographical portraits by Carmen Blacker : Three great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow

Marie Stopes

Arthur Waley

Minakata Kumagusu

Yoshio Markino

Christmas Humphreys

Cambridge women. Part 4 Selected academic writings : The shinza or god-seat in the Daijōsai: throne bed, or incubation couch?

Divination and oracles in Japan

The goddess emerges from her cave: Fujita Himiko and her dragon palace family

"The exiled warrior and the hidden village": a possible solution to the enigma of the Heike-densetsu

Extracts from legends of Heike Villages: the fugitive warrior as ancestor

The language of birds

The angry ghost in Japan. Part 5 Selected Carmen Blacker lectures : Remembering Carmen Blacker / Donald Keene

A glimpse of the modestly literate picnic lovers of old Japan / Toshio Yokoyama

Tsushima: Japan viewed from the margins - archives, books, ginseng / Peter Kornicki

Amaterasu's progress: the Ise Shrines and the public sphere of post-war Japan / John Breen

Unofficial and commoner worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan / James McMullen. Part 6 A celebratory essay : The search for the numinous in Wordsworth and Coleridge: some hints from The Catalpa Bow / Hisaaki Yamanouchi. Appendix: Carmen's literary gift / compiled by Paul Norbury. Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

1-003-69208-7

1-04-077217-X

1-898823-57-X

9781003692089

OCLC:

1305009555