Carmen Blacker
scholar of japanese religion, myth and folklore: writings and reflections
$314.53
- Hardcover
478 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2017
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 insight …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781898823568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1898823561 |
| Author: | Hugh Cortazzi |
| Publisher: | Global Books |
| Imprint: | Renaissance Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 478 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.10kg |
| Dimensions: | 354mm x 180mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
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), for The Japan Society, in addition to Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001), British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004) and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). He also co-edited, with Peter Kornicki, Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History (2016).
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