Carmen Blacker : scholar of Japanese religion, myth and folklore : writings and reflections

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Carmen Blacker : scholar of Japanese religion, myth and folklore : writings and reflections

editied by Hugh Cortazzi with James McMullen and Mary-Grace Browning

Renaissance Books, 2017

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Bibliography: p. [463]-465, Index: p. [467]-477

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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 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 her former pupil Peter Kornicki in celebration of her work and legacy, together with 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 played a vital role in helping to re-establish The Japan Society, London, post-war.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mami Mizutori, SISJAC Preface by Hugh Cortazzi Introduction: Carmen Blacker - Friend, Scholar and Wife by Michael Loewe List of Contributors List of Plates Map of Japan Japan's Prefectures PART I: CARMEN BLACKER AS SEEN BY HER FRIENDS 1. Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924 -2009: A Biographical Memoir by James McMullen 2. Biographical Portrait by Peter Kornicki 3. Memories of Carmen Blacker by Yokoyama Toshio 4. Words from Hugh Cortazzi at Carmen Blacker's Memorial Meeting PART II: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CARMEN BLACKER'S DIARIES AND OTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS * Carmen Blacker's 'Introduction' to her Collected Writings * Introducing Carmen Blacker's Diaries by Hugh Cortazzi Plate section * Extracts from the Diaries PART III: SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS BY CARMEN BLACKER 5. Three Great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow 6. Marie Stopes 7. Arthur Wale 8. Minakata Kumagusu 9. Yoshio Markino 10. Christmas Humphreys 11. Cambridge Women PART IV: SELECTED Academic Writings 12. The Shinza or God-seat in the Daijsai: Throne Bed, or Incubation Couch? 13. Divination and Oracles in Japan 14. The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family 15. 'The Exiled Warrior and the Hidden Village': A Possible Solution to the Enigma of the Heike-densetsu. 16. Extracts from Legends of Heike Villages: The Fugitive Warrior as Ancestor 17. The Language of Birds 18. The Angry Ghost in Japan PART V: SELECTED CARMEN BLACKER LECTURES 19. Remembering Carmen Blacker (Donald Keene) 20. A Glimpse of the Modestly Literate Picnic Lovers of Old Japan (Toshio Yokoyama) 21. Tsushima: Japan Viewed from the Margins - Archives, Books, Ginseng (Peter Kornicki) 22. Amaterasu's Progress: The Ise Shrines and the Public Sphere of Post-war Japan (John Breen) 23. Unofficial and Commoner Worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan James McMullen PART VI: A CELEBRATORY ESSAY 24. 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

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