13. Divination and Oracles in Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Carmen Blacker – Friend, Scholar and Wife xv
6. Contributors xv
7. List of Contributors xxxv
8. List of Plates xxxvi
9. PART I: CARMEN BLACKER AS SEEN BY HER FRIENDS
10. 1. Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924 –2009: A Biographical Memoir 3
11. 2. Biographical Portrait 28
12. 3. Memories of Carmen Blacker 43
13. 4. Words from HUGH CORTAZZI at Carmen Blacker’s Memorial Meeting 46
14. PART II: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CARMEN BLACKER’S DIARIES AND OTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHICALWRITINGS
15. Carmen Blacker's Introduction to her Collected writings 51
16. Introductions Carmen Blacker's Diaries 55
17. Extracts from the diaries 56
18. PART III: SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS BY CARMEN BLACKER
19. 5. Three Great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow 203
20. 6. Marie Stopes 219
21. 7. Arthur Waley 230
22. 8. Minakata Kumagusu 236
23. 9. Yoshio Markino 250
24. 10. Christmas Humphreys 265
25. 11. Cambridge Women 274
26. PART IV: SELECTED ACADEMIC WRITINGS
27. 12. The Shinza or God-seat in the Daijosai: Throne, Bed or Incubation Couch? 283
28. 13. Divination and Oracles in Japan 300
29. 14. The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family 320
30. 15. The Exiled Warrior and the Hidden Village 328
31. 16. Extracts from Legends of Heike Villages: The Fugitive Warrior as Ancestor 345
32. 17. The Language of Birds 353
33. 18. The Angry Ghost in Japan 361
34. PART V: SELECTED CARMEN BLACKER LECTURES
35. 19. Remembering Carmen Blacker 373
36. 20. A Glimpse of the Modestly Literate Picnic Lovers of Old Japan 383
37. 21. Tsushima: Japan Viewed from the Margins – Archives, Books, Ginseng 399
38. 22. Amaterasu’s Progress: The Ise Shrines and the Public Sphere of Post-war Japan 412
39. 23. Unofficial and Commoner Worship od Confucius in Tokugawa Japan 429
40. PART VI: A CELEBRATORY ESSAY
41. 24. The Search for the Numinous in Wordsworth and Coleridge: Some Hints from The Catalpa Bow 459
42. APPENDIX: Carmen’s Literary Gift. Compiled by PAUL NORBURY 475
43. Bibliography 479
44. Index 483