Carmen Blacker
Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections
$93.78
- Paperback
532 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore – her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts from the author’s diaries covering a period of more than forty years, together with a plate section drawn from her extensive photographic archive, thus providing a rare opportunity to gain a personal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781041176589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1041176589 |
| Author: | Hugh Cortazzi |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 532 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 246mm |
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Hugh Cortazzi
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan. His many books include Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016).
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