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The fox's craft in Japanese religion and folklore : shapeshifters, transformations, and duplicities / Michael Bathgate.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion in history, society & culture ; 7.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203484762
  • 9780203484760
  • 9786610052622
  • 661005262X
  • 9780415968218
  • 0415968216
  • 9781135883911
  • 1135883912
  • 9781135883867
  • 1135883866
  • 9781135883904
  • 1135883904
  • 9781138878969
  • 1138878960
  • 1280052627
  • 9781280052620
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fox's craft in Japanese religion and folklore.DDC classification:
  • 398/.3699775/0952 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2211.I5 B37 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Chapter 1 The Jewel Maiden and The Murder Stone -- chapter 2 Foxes, Wives and Spirits -- chapter 3 To Whom Am I Speaking? -- chapter 4 The Gift of the Fox -- chapter 5 Using the Fox.
Summary: For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter fox imagery in Japanese history. Michael Bathgate finds that the shapeshifting powers of the fox make it a surprisingly fundamental symbol.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)106323

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.

Print version record.

Chapter 1 The Jewel Maiden and The Murder Stone -- chapter 2 Foxes, Wives and Spirits -- chapter 3 To Whom Am I Speaking? -- chapter 4 The Gift of the Fox -- chapter 5 Using the Fox.

For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter fox imagery in Japanese history. Michael Bathgate finds that the shapeshifting powers of the fox make it a surprisingly fundamental symbol.

English.