A01=Noriko T. Reider
abandoned women
aging
anime
anthropology
antisocial behavior
archetypes
Author_Noriko T. Reider
bloodsucker
bloodsucking
burial
burial place
Category=DS
Category=JBGB
Category=NHF
childbirth
classic
crones
cultural studies
demonology
dimension
drama
duality
elderly issues
elderly woman
enigma
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
fashion
female form
feminism
feminist criticism
film
flying
folklore
fortune-telling
gender studies
gendered expectations
ghosts
goddess
gods
hag
hags
history
Izanami
Japanese culture
Japanese Demon Lore
Japanese literacy
Japanese psyche
Japanese society
Japanese women past and present
Kojiki
man-eating
manga
medieval
Miami University
mind reading
modern fiction
monsters
mother of divine children
mother of supernatural children
mountain goddess
Mountains Where Eerie Things Happen
mythic trope
mythmaking
ogres
old woman
oni
patriarchal society
performing arts
phenomena
prose
re-creation
Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan
sex and gender
shapeshifting
Shibuya
social expectations
social status
spiders
spinning
spirits
spirits of snow
spiritual powers
spiritual realm
strange creatures of the ocean
supernatural
supernatural creatures
Tales of the Supernatural in Early Modern Japan
to Hiromi'
visual arts
weaving
women
women in society
Yamabushi
Yamabushi Subjugating Yamauba
Yokai
Product details
- ISBN 9781646420544
- Weight: 336g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Colorado
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present. In recent years yamauba have attracted much attention among scholars of women’s literature as women unconstrained by conformative norms or social expectations, but this is the first book to demonstrate how these figures contribute to folklore, Japanese studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Situating the yamauba within the construct of yōkai and archetypes, Noriko T. Reider investigates the yamauba attributes through the examination of narratives including folktales, literary works, legends, modern fiction, manga, and anime. She traces the lineage of a yamauba image from the seventh-century text Kojiki to the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, and explores its emergence as well as its various, often conflicting, characteristics. Reider also examines the adaptation and re-creation of the prototype in diverse media such as modern fiction, film, manga, anime, and fashion in relation to the changing status of women in Japanese society.
Offering a comprehensive overview of the development of the yamauba as a literary and mythic trope, Mountain Witches is a study of an archetype that endures in Japanese media and folklore. It will be valuable to students, scholars, and the general reader interested in folklore, Japanese literature, demonology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts.
Noriko T. Reider is professor of Japanese at Miami University, where her research focuses on the supernatural in Japanese literature, folklore, and art. She is the author of Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan, Japanese Demon Lore, Mountain Witches and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Modern Japan. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Asian Ethnology, Japan Forum, and Film Criticism, among other journals.
