Chinese [mythology] Japanese [mythology]
By: by Masaharu Anesaki
Series: The Mythology of all races -- v. 8
Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Chinese Mythology; Japanese Mythology
Description: Myths, legends, heroes, and gods of east Asia, China and Japan.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [389]-400.
Table of contents: title: Chinese. Taoism; title: The three emperors; title: Other prehistoric emperors; title: Intermixture of early religious beliefs; title: Cosmogony and cosmological theories; title: Spirits of nature; title: Domestic rites; title: Great national heroes; title: The animal and the vegetable worlds; title: Supernatural beings; title: Occultism; title: Folk-lore; title: Exemplary tales; title: Theatrical tales; title: Buddhist myths; title: Criticism.; title: Japanese. Cosmological myths and tales of origins (Spontaneous generation : life and death; title: The rulers of the world : the contest between the sun-goddess and the storm-god; title: Further conflicts and compromises; title: Episodes and myths of origins; title: The beliefs concerning the soul; title: The Buddhist paradise and the guardians of the world); title: Local legends and communal cults : topography and the division into clans; title: Fairies, celestial beings, the men of the mountain (The sources of fairy tales; title: The fairy-maiden; title: The Buddhist fairies, the Tennin and the Ryujin; title: The Taoist immortals); title: Demons, vampires and other ghostly beings (The devil; title: The hungry ghost and the furious spirit; title: Other ghostly beings); title: Romantic stories; title: Heroic stories; title: Stories of animals (Grateful animals; title: Revengeful and malicious animals; title: The serpent; title: Love and marriage of animals; title: The insects, especially the butterfly); title: Stories of plants and flowers (Mythical trees; title: The genii of the plants; title: The flower fairies; title: The floral calendar); title: Didactic stories, humour and satire (The adaptation of stories to didactic purposes; title: The story of Bontenkoku; title: Humour and satire; title: An age of discontent and satire).