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Journal articles on the topic "Japanese mythology"

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Tu, Xiaofei, and Wendy Xie. "The Kojiki/Nihon Shoki Mythology and Chinese Mythology: Theme, Structure, and Meaning." Religions 12, no. 10 (October 18, 2021): 896. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12100896.

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This essay will compare myths found in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki with thematically and structurally similar Chinese myths, and other Japanese texts, in order to shed light on the meanings of both Japanese and Chinese mythology. The authors’ approach is partly in the critical textual study tradition that traces back to Gu Jiegang and Tsuda Sokichi, and partly informed by comparative mythologists, such as Matsumae Takeshi, Nelly Naumann, and Antonio Klaus, with attention to Proppian and Levi-Straussian motifs in structural studies. First, we shall discuss some common themes in Chinese and Kojiki/Nihon Shoki myths. Second, we shall point out common structures in both Chinese and Japanese myths. Finally, we shall try to show how such common themes and structures could potentially help us understand the meanings of the myths in discussion.

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Vasic, Danijela. "Solar deity in Japanese mythology." Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique 72, no. 1 (2024): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gei2401059v.

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In order to create an orderly state, the first imperial chronicles emerged in the early 8th century in the territory of modern Japan through the integration and systematization of mythical elements that proved the legitimacy of the government and the descent of the imperial Yamato lineage from the supreme deity of the Shinto pantheon - the Great Sun Goddess Amaterasu. This mythic paradigm was created on the existing mytho-historical foundations fostered by cultural and political contacts with the Korean kingdoms and the Chinese empire. There is evidence that the cult of the solar deity, originally portrayed as a male principle, originated in a corpus outside the Yamato mythological system. And since male-female pairs of rulers were common (first it was the gods, later the ruler and the shamaness), it is possible that at some point the distinction between the sexes was blurred and then the female side prevailed. However, the female ancestral deity does not indicate a period of matriarchy. This symbolic type of goddess, who initiates a patrimonial lineage with rare female exceptions, was created by members of a privileged group of powerful men to legitimize their own power structures. Moreover, the cult of the mother goddess is not limited to the solar principle, but is associated with weaving, silk production, and agriculture. Thus, the simple assertion that the Yamato imperial lineage descended from the goddess Amaterasu raises numerous questions and doubts, which this essay attempts to answer.

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Hoshina, Hideto. "The Mythology of Insect-Loving Japan." Insects 13, no. 3 (February 26, 2022): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13030234.

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Japanese people are perceived to have a relatively more favorable disposition towards insects than individuals from other nations. Given that insects frequently appear in myths from all over the world, I researched Japanese mythology as a potential origin of this positive outlook toward insects. I reviewed the ancient records Kojiki, Nihonshoki, and Fudoki, and found seven cases where insects appear. In all cases, the insects played relatively minor roles. They did not speak, nor were they under the command of gods or emperors. They did not feature as main characters in ancient poetry, and gods/emperors did not take the shape of any insects. In only two instances were insects featured in a positive light. In general, relationships between gods, emperors, and insects are weak in Japanese mythology, and hence mythology does not appear to be the primary source of Japanese affinity for insects.

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Noh,Sung-Hwan. "Ancient Korea in the Japanese Mythology." Journal of North-east Asian Cultures 1, no. 16 (September 2008): 583–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.17949/jneac.1.16.200809.024.

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Hoston, Germaine A. "Conceptualizing Bourgeois Revolution: The Prewar Japanese Left and the Meiji Restoration." Comparative Studies in Society and History 33, no. 3 (July 1991): 539–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500017175.

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That the Meiji Restoration marked Japan's proruption as a modern industrial nation-state has become a commonplace among those who study Japanese political history. The event may lack the romantic drama and mythology of the French revolutionary upheaval of almost a century before, yet the Restoration has remained a source of fascination for scholars seeking patterns in the events that transcend national boundaries to form the seamless web of human history.

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Ito, Toshiko. "Wandelnde Horizonte des Weltwissens." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 82–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2018.100106.

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*Full article is in GermanChanging Horizons of World Knowledge: On the Presentation of Space in Primary School Geography Textbooks of the Japanese EmpireEnglish abstractThe presentation of space in primary geography textbooks of the Japanese Empire (1868–1945) changed according to the political climate. In the liberal phase of the 1870s, Japanese geography schoolbooks dealt with the entire earth. In the revisionist phase of the 1880s, in order to encourage a sense of national identity, no knowledge of lands outside of Japan was imparted to lower primary school students. In the phase of colonial expansion from the 1890s, the world reemerged in geography school books, with an increasing emphasis on the reorganisation of East Asia. Drawing on premodern mythology, primary geography textbooks served to consolidate the Japanese concept of empire in accordance with the respective political situation. German abstractDie Raumvorstellung in den elementaren Geographieschulbüchern des Japanischen Kaiserreichs (1868–1945) änderte sich mit dem politischen Klima. In der liberalen Phase der 1870er Jahre behandelten die Geographieschulbücher alle Erdräume. In der revisionistischen Phase der 1880er Jahre wurde den unteren Grundschülern zur Wahrung der nationalen Identität kein Wissen über die Erdräume außerhalb Japans vermittelt. In der kolonialen Expansionsphase ab den 1890er Jahren fanden die Erdräume außerhalb Japans wieder Eingang in die Geographieschulbücher, wobei die Neuordnung Ostasiens immer stärker betont wurde. Auf der vormodernen Mythologie basierend dienten die elementaren Geographieschulbücher der Festigung des japanischen Reichsgedankens nach Maßgabe der jeweiligen politischen Lage.Keywords: Geographieschulbücher, Großostasiatische Wohlstandssphäre, Japanisches Kaiserreich, koloniale Expansion, nationale Identität, Raumvorstellung

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Panchuk, Ekaterina, and Alena Alekseeva. "YOUKAI AS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF JAPANESE CULTURE." Scientific Papers Collection of the Angarsk State Technical University 2021, no. 1 (July 5, 2021): 289–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.36629/2686-7788-2021-1-1-289-292.

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The analysis of the concept of "youkai" in Japanese mythology, its origin is given, the varieties of youkai are considered. There are references to youkai in ancient monuments of Japanese culture, their reflection in literature and fine arts, modern film and game industries

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MacWilliams, Mark. "Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture - By Jun'chi Isomae." Religious Studies Review 37, no. 3 (September 2011): 236–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01544_2.x.

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Duthie, Torquil. "Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture (review)." Monumenta Nipponica 66, no. 2 (2011): 335–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mni.2011.0033.

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Shultz, John A. "Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture, by Jun’ichi Isomae." Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 1, no. 2 (2011): 371–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/rsrr1-2-537.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Japanese mythology"

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Chan, Wai-yu, and 陳慧瑜. "The idea of kingship in ancient Chinese and Japanese mythologies: a comparative study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31228185.

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Tsuji, Yasuko. "A comparative study of Japanese and Polynesian mythology with particular reference to selected cosmogony and trickster myths." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Japanese, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8131.

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In this thesis, Japanese mythology is compared with Polynesian mythology. Particularly, two Polynesian myths are selected as comparative material. The first one is a Maori cosmogony myth, a South Island version of Tāne, the second one a Samoan trickster myth, The Octopus and the Rat. Tāne is compared with the Japanese cosmogony myth, while The Octopus and the Rat is compared with the Japanese trickster myth, the White Rabbit of lnaba. Some common elements between the two mythologies and their origins are discussed in an analysis of the myths. Both myths are also translated into Japanese. To my knowledge, this is the first time this version of Tāne and The Octopus and the Rat have been translated into Japanese. Present Polynesian and Japanese migration theories and studies are also investigated, in order to explain the occurrence of similarities between both mythologies.

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Sheets, William J. "Mythology in 21st Century Japan: A Study of Ame no Uzume no Mikoto." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500615882214031.

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Squires, Todd Andrew. "Reading the Kōwaka-mai as Medieval myth story-patterns, traditional reference and performance in Late Medieval Japan /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/squires.pdf.

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Gava, Priscila Gerolde. "A mitologia judaico-cristã e o herói japonês: a jornada mítica de Mudo Setsuna no mangá Angel Sanctuary." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8157/tde-04122018-093639/.

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O presente trabalho propõe a análise da trajetória do protagonista do mangá Angel Sanctuary, da autora Yuki Kaori, publicado originalmente no Japão entre 1994 e 2000, sob a luz da jornada do herói de Joseph Campbell, a fim de traçar seu perfil como herói japonês contemporâneo de mangá. Propõe-se juntamente a análise do diálogo da obra com a mitologia judaico-cristã, principal fonte de inspiração e referências da autora para a confecção de sua história. Para tanto, é feita uma apresentação dos elementos próprios das histórias em quadrinhos e da jornada do herói, para que depois sejam aplicadas ao mangá Angel Sanctuary, no qual são apontadas as etapas da jornada e seus arquétipos, assim como suas relações com as mitologias nas quais são baseados. A análise aponta para uma diferença entre o pensamento tipicamente japonês, que tende a encarar com naturalidade a presença de forças opostas num mesmo ser e na natureza, em contraste com a forte separação entre Bem e Mal presente nas religiões judaico-cristãs.
This dissertation thesis proposes the analysis of the trajectory of the manga Angel Sanctuarys protagonist, from author Yuki Kaori, originally published in Japan between 1994 and 2000, considering Joseph Campbells Heros Journey, in order to trace his profile as a contemporary Japanese manga hero. It also proposes the analysis of the mangas dialog with the Judeo-Christian mythology, main source of the authors inspiration and references for the confection of her story. To do so, the characteristic elements of comic books and the Heros Journey are presented, so that they can be applied to Angel Sanctuary, in which the journeys steps and archetypes are indicated, as well as their relations to the mythologies in which they are based. The analysis points to a difference between typical Japanese thinking, that tends to face the presence of opposing forces inside a single being and in nature with naturality, in contrast with the well-defined separation between Good and Evil existent in Judeo-Christian religions.

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Felt, Matthieu Anthony James. "Rewriting the Past: Reception and Commentary of Nihon shoki, Japan's First Official History." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D86978X2.

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This study traces the diverse interpretations of Japan’s oldest official history, the 720 Nihon shoki, from its earliest scholarly treatment in the ninth century until its enshrinement within the canon of Japanese national literature in the modern period. Elites in the early eighth century produced a number of texts that described the fundamental principles of the world and the contours of the Japanese empire, such as Kojiki (712), Kaifūsō (751), Man’yōshū (late 8th c.), and as the official court narrative, Nihon shoki. While each of these possesses its own “imperial imagination,” Nihon shoki is distinct because it heavily incorporates historical polities across Northeast Asia, especially on the Korean peninsula, in creating a narrative of ancient Japan in the world. Further, Nihon shoki, while written primarily in Literary Sinitic, also includes elements of the Japanese vernacular, and rather than delineating a single orthodox narrative, provides a number of alternative, conflicting accounts of Japanese mythology. These characteristics animated much of the debate surrounding the text’s proper reading and meaning as later commentators grappled with its exegesis. The dissertation comprises an introduction and five chapters. The first chapter analyzes the discourse surrounding the Nihon shoki in the eighth and ninth centuries, when lectures were periodically given on the text at court. The notes from these lectures reveal controversies over how the text was composed and the proper method of reading it. After the lectures, courtiers composed Japanese poetry about major figures depicted in the work, frequently creating new mythologies that departed from the original as they sought to connect their vision of antiquity with the present. The poems also demonstrate the use of digests and alternative texts that were used as stand-ins for Nihon shoki. I discuss two of these in detail, Kogo shūi (807) and Sendai kuji hongi (c. 936), and show how they took advantage of ambiguities in Nihon shoki to position themselves as authoritative accounts. In Chapter 2, I take up approaches that used Nihon shoki as an originary narrative from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. This type of treatment begins to appear to a limited degree in poetic treatises such as Minamoto no Toshiyori’s Toshiyori zuinō (1113) and Fujiwara no Nakazane’s Kigōshō (1116) and became widespread through the middle of the twelfth century. These same mid-century scholars were also responsible for producing picture scrolls based on the text and the first Nihon shoki commentary, Shinzei’s Nihongi shō (circa 1150). As the trend intensified, citations began to go further and farther afield, often attributing stories and facts to Nihon shoki that are not in the original text. Use of Nihon shoki as an originary narrative was also adopted in political treatises by commentators such as Jien (1155-1225), and I discuss the methods and acrobatic intellectual maneuvers of these agents in blending Buddhist and continental cosmology with the Nihon shoki creation story. I focus especially on Jien’s Gukanshō (c. 1220) and Ichijō Kaneyoshi’s (1402-1481) Nihon shoki sanso (1457). Chapter 3 begins with the uneasy syncretism between Nihon shoki and Song Confucian metaphysics in the seventeenth century. Works in this lineage, such as Hayashi Razan’s Jinmu tennō ron (1618), imagine the gods as metaphors for human actors and form the mainstream of intellectual treatment of Nihon shoki in the Edo period. Other Confucian thinkers, such as Yamazaki Ansai, instead read the gods as factual and use Nihon shoki as evidence of universal Confucian metaphysics; in Ansai’s case the result was an entirely new school of Shinto, and his disciples were responsible for the first two commentaries that covered the entire text. One response to this was a reading that prioritized continental histories over the Nihon shoki chronicles, epitomized by the full-length commentary Shoki shukkai (c. 1785). Another arose in the nascent discipline of national learning, exemplified by Motoori Norinaga’s (1730-1801) criticism of Ansai. Norinaga went on to write a full commentary of the Kojiki, but his reading relied heavily on Nihon shoki, and he cites it more than any other text in his narrative of Japan’s divine age. Chapter 4 introduces a diversity of approaches that attempt to reconcile Nihon shoki with the ideal of a modern national history at the end of the nineteenth century. I begin outlining an 1888 debate that continued for nearly a year over the chronology of Nihon shoki; producing an accurate chronology of Japanese history was considered critical to measuring Japan’s societal progression in comparison to other civilizations. I then discuss historical and linguistic study of the divine age from 1890-1912. Contemporary scholarship often misreads these accounts as being based in positivist historicism, but I show that they are actually rooted in original reinterpretations of Nihon shoki that mix-and-match variant pieces to create a new imperial narrative. Particular attention is given to how such readings were used to justify colonial expansion to Korea. Chapter 5 addresses Nihon shoki’s shifting position in national literature by analyzing several histories of Japanese literature written from 1890 to 1912, especially Takatsu Kuwasaburō and Mikami Sanji’s Nihon bungaku shi and Haga Yaichi’s Kokubungakushi jikkō. The variety of interpretations applied to Nihon shoki illustrate major shifts in ideas about what constituted literature, how literary periods should be divided, the role of academics in creating a national canon, and whether literature should focus on universal characteristics of civilization or particular attributes of national culture. By the end of this period, emphasis on the idea of a shared national language led scholars to sideline Nihon shoki in favor of texts written in something more closely resembling the Japanese vernacular like Kojiki and Man’yōshū. It also cemented the eighth-century as “Ancient Japanese Literature” (jōdai bungaku), a field periodization still in place today.

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St-Laurent, Jean-Michel. "Les princesses Médée et Himiko : une étude comparative des mythologies grecque et japonaise." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20686.

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坂江徹. "On the source of ancient Japanese mythology, an investigation into the three books: "Ko-ziki", "Nihonnsyoki" and "Hudoki"." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50000651993762033774.

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Выстороп, А. О., and A. O. Vystorop. "Русские и японские волшебные сказки: сравнительный анализ : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/56078.

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This final qualification work is devoted to a comparative analysis of Russian and Japanese fairy tales (tales of magic), the purpose of which is to identify the similarities and differences that exist between them.Comparative analysis is based on the methodology of the Russian folklorist V. Ya. Propp, which allows to make a comprehensive research of the inner structure of fairy tales. In the course of the comparative analysis, the main attention is paid to studying the influence of archaic social and ritual institutions on the origin and formation of the main plots and motifs of Russian and Japanese fairy tales, as well as to identify the causes of similarities and differences between fairy tales of Japan and Russia. Comparative analysis is carried out with the involvement of a wide range of research literature on the Slavic and Japanese cultures, which allows to give a scientific justification for the presence of similarities and differences between Russian and Japanese fairy tales.
В работе проводится сравнительный анализ русских и японских волшебных сказок, целью которого являетсявыявление существующих между ними сходств и различий. Сравнительный анализ основывается на методологии русского фольклориста В.Я. Проппа, которая позволяет комплексно исследовать внутреннее строение волшебных сказок. В ходе сравнительного анализа основное внимание уделяется изучению влияния архаических социальных и обрядовых институтов на происхождение и формирование основных сюжетов и мотивов русских и японских волшебных сказок, а также выявлениюпричин возникновения сходств и различий между волшебными сказками Японии и России. Сравнительный анализ проводится с привлечением широкого круга исследовательской литературы, посвященной славянской и японской культурам,что позволяет дать научное обоснование наличию сходств и различий между русскими и японскими волшебными сказками.

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Books on the topic "Japanese mythology"

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Piggott, Juliet. Japanese mythology. New York, N.Y: P. Bedrick Books, 1987.

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Ashkenazi, Michael. Handbook of Japanese mythology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Levin, Judith. Indian mythology. New York: The Rosen Pub. Group, 2007.

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Green, Jen. Chinese and Japanese myths. New York: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2010.

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Ōbayashi, Taryō. Shinwa no keifu: Nihon shinwa no genryū o saguru. Tōkyō: Seidosha, 1986.

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Harada, Dairoku. Jitsuzai shita shinwa: Hakkutsusareta "Hirabaru Yayoi Kofun". Tōkyō: Gakuseisha, 1998.

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Sioris, George A. Mythology of Greece and Japan: Archetypal similarities. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1987.

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Yoshida, Atsuhiko. Nihon shinwa no tokushoku. Tōkyō: Seidosha, 1985.

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Ōkubo, Ichirō. Shinʾyaku Nihon shinwa: Izumo shinwa no genzō. Hiroshima-ken Hiroshima-shi: Nishi Nihon Bunka Shuppan, 1989.

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Nunomura, Kazuo. Genshi bosei wa tsuki de atta: "Boseiron" chosha Bahhaōfen hyakunenki kinen. Tōkyō: Kazokushi Kenkyūkai, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Japanese mythology"

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Anesaki, Masaharu. "Shinto Mythology." In History of Japanese Religion, 24–31. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032641607-4.

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Bentley, John R. "Mythical beginnings and the beginning of mythology." In The Birth of Japanese Historiography, 72–94. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367809591-4.

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Brown, Brendan. "Japanese Tales in the Mythology of Fed Quantitative Easing." In A Global Monetary Plague, 156–79. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478856_7.

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Scheid, Bernhard. "Mythology and Genealogy in the Canonical Sources of Japanese History." In Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 83–99. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.celama-eb.5.121053.

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Dandarova-Robert, Zhargalma, Christelle Cocco, Grégory Dessart, and Pierre-Yves Brandt. "Where Gods Dwell? Part I: Spatial Imagery in Children’s Drawings of Gods." In When Children Draw Gods, 153–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94429-2_6.

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AbstractSupernatural agents, although imagined by humans as omnipresent, cannot escape being placed (at least mentally) by believers somewhere in physical space. For example, kami in Shintoism are believed to reside in natural elements of the landscape. In Christianity, God is typically associated with Heaven. Similarly, Jesus is said to have ascended into Heaven after his resurrection. According to Buddhist mythology, gods live in the heavens, and the next Buddha, Maitreya, will descend to earth from heaven.This study (Part I of a two-part project) investigates the role of spatiality in children’s conceptions of the divine as shown through their drawings of god. We collected drawings by participants from four different cultural and religious environments (n = 1156): Japanese (Buddhism and Shinto), Russian-Buryat (Buddhism, Shamanism), Russian Slavic (Christian Orthodoxy) and French-speaking Swiss (Catholic and reformed Christianity). Our study indicates that the tendency to place god in the sky was not strongly related to a particular cultural or religious context. Children from all groups most often drew god either in the sky or with no background at all. We note two implications for folk psychology: (1) Children tend to conceptualize god in single location, (2) They often associate the divine with a celestial background.

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"Myth and Rationality: Understanding God in the Early-Modern and Modern Periods." In Japanese Mythology, 93–115. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539089-10.

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"Myth and Nationalism: Motoori Norinaga’s Creation Myths." In Japanese Mythology, 116–33. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539089-11.

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"The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Shō’s Theory of the Heroic Age." In Japanese Mythology, 134–63. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539089-12.

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"Introduction: Hermeneutics on the Theory of Sacred Texts and Nostalgia toward Historical Origins." In Japanese Mythology, 9–24. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539089-6.

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"National History, Shintō, and Myth: General Remarks on the History of the Interpretation of the Kiki." In Japanese Mythology, 25–42. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315539089-7.

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