Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-86669-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.
Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.
The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.
The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan.
Originally published in 1963.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bownas, Geoffrey

Brown, Pauline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction2. The New Year3. Births, Marriages and Deaths4. Gion Festival5. Bon6. Rainmaking7. Tenri and Yamato8. Taboo9. The Village Year

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Bownas