Ghosts And The Japanese : Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

Barre Toelken
University Press of Colorado
9780874211795
0-87421-179-4

The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly.

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death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan.