num_pages: 162
description: 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 death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan.
language: English
title: Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
titlecomplete: Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
genres: Anthropology, Death, Japan, Nonfiction, Ghosts, Folklore
ratings_count: 85
publisher: Utah State University Press