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"Seven oni stories from medieval Japan, translated for an English-speaking audience. In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures, some great and some small, some mischievous, others dangerous, who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief"--Provided by publisher.

Spirits. --- Supernatural. --- Legends --- Folklore --- Demonology --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- Religion --- Miracles --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits

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Folklore --- 82 --- CDL --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization. --- J4120 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phenomena

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J1723 --- J4150 --- J5500.70 --- J4140.70 --- J4000.70 --- Folklore --- -Japanese literature --- -Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Japan: Religion in general -- primitive religions -- general popular beliefs and folk religion --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan --- Civilization --- -Folklore --- Japanese literature --- -Japan: Religion in general -- primitive religions -- general popular beliefs and folk religion --- -J1723 --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- J4150.70 --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia

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The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan. The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan.

Death -- Japan -- Folklore. --- Death -- Social aspects -- Japan. --- Folklore -- Japan. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Japan. --- Japan -- Social life and customs. --- Legends -- Japan -- History and criticism. --- Legends -- Japan. --- Folklore --- Death --- Legends --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- J4157 --- J4120 --- J1715.50 --- J1740 --- J1723.80 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phemomena --- Japan: Religion in general -- theology -- mortality, immortality, transmigration --- Japan: Religion in general -- occultism --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- Dying --- End of life --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Philosophy --- Folklore. --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phenomena