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Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings
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1: Religion, Myth & Folklore; 1: ? The Language of Birds; 2: ? Paradise at the Beginning of Time: an Intimation of the Enlightened State; 3: ? Two Shinto Myths: the Golden Age and the Chosen People; 4: ? The Snake Woman in Japanese Myth and Legend; 5: ? The Angry Ghost in Japan; 6: ? The Seer as a Healer in Japan; 7: ? Divination and Oracles in Japan; 8: ? The Shinza or God-seat in the Daij?sai: Throne, Bed or Incubation Couch?; 9: ? The Divine Boy in Japanese Buddhism; 10: ? Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore; 11: 11 ? Symbolism of the Divine Guest in Shingon Ritual; 12: ? The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family; 13: ? Forgotten Practices of the Past: Kaempfer's Strange Description of the Japanese Emperor; 14: ? The Religious Traveller in the Edo Period; 15: ? The Disguised Wandering Saint: an Example of the Stranger in Folklore; 16: ? Initiation in the Shugend?: the Passage Through the Ten States of Existence; 2: Portraits & Recollections; 17: ? Recollections of Baba Tatsui's Elementary Grammar; 18: ? Intent of Courtesy: a Recollection of Arthur Waley; 19: ? A Room with a Gourd: Recollections of Osaragi Jiro; 20: ? Marie Stopes and Japan; 21: ? The Two Piggotts: Sir Francis Taylor Piggott and Major General F.S.G. Piggott; 22: ? Minakata Kumagusu, 1867-1941: a Genius now Recognized; 23: ? Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956; 24: ? Laurence Oliphant and Japan, 1858-1888; 25: ? Christmas Humphreys and Japan; 26: ? Impressions of a Japanese University; 27: ? Three Great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow; 3: Book Reviews; 28: ? Dr Willis in Japan: British Medical Pioneer 1862-1877; 29: ? A Diplomat's Wife in Japan: Sketches at the Turn of the Century; 30: ? Zen and the Ways; 31: ? Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan; 32: ? Edmund Blunden and Japan: the History of a Relationship; 33: ? Shashin Gy?ja Jitsukaga no Shugend?; 34: ? Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; 35: ? Shinto: the Fountainhead of Japan; 36: ? Y?sei Jiten (‘Dictionary of Fairies'); 37: ? Selected Writings of Nichiren; 38: ? Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

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