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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2396
Post Type: Book
This item was entered by Matthew Sutton. They assume full responsibility for all content.
Artist or Author: Juliet Piggott
Creation Year: 1969
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ISBN: 0-75370-002-6 Language: English Description: Japan is a country rich in myths, legends, and folk tales, and its mythology is a fascinating blend of gods, herores, supernatural beings, and intelligent animals, inspired by history, ghost stories and religion.
Buddhism and Shinto are both flourishing religions and contribute remarkable stories of gods and mortals. The gods of Shinto, the indigenous religion, all have human failings: like Ameratsu, the sun goddess, who plunged the world into darkness in anger at the behavior of Susano, the storm god.
Stories are told of the mighty deeds of historical characters such as Tamemoto and Yoshitsune; and others of familiar animlas like dogs, cats, foxes, badgers and monkeys who converse freely and repay wrongs or kindnesses done to them by humans.
Ghost stories, too, abound, and the countryside is populated by creatures such as the tree-dwelling tengu and the kappa, goblins, which haunt rivers and have an insatiable appetite for cucumbers as well as animals and human beings.
144 pages.
Geographic: Japan
Materials: Paper
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