Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends by Barre Toelken, Michiko Iwasaka

Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

Barre Toelken, Michiko Iwasaka

162 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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