Catalpa Bow
Subtitle: a Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780203347133
Subjects: Japan; Shamanism
Description: This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements; The Bridge; The Sacred Beings; Witch Animals; The Other World; Ascesis; The Ancient Sibyl; The Living Goddess; The Blind Medium; The Ascetic's Initiation; The Visionary Journey; The Symbolic Journey; The Ascetic's Power; Village Oracles; Mountain Oracles; Exorcism; Conclusion; Appendix: Climbing the Ladder of Swords; Abbreviations; Select Bibliography; Additional Bibliography (Third Edition); Glossary; Index.