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Taro Ogo
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Studies on the shamanism of the Ryukyu Islands were generally based on a clear distinction between the community ("noro") and individuals ("yuta"). But recently such dichotomy has been challenged and revised. The aim of this paper is to find the communal and spiritual possibilities of individual bodies or "yuta" with the new concept of "spirituality" which is more broadly and comprehensively defined.
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Shusaku Yoshida
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The two episodes in Sujin-ki - Momoso-hime's oracles and the marriage between a god and a human being - have the same narrative structure as well as a similar shamanistic plot of possession and ecstasy. The very structure is also found in Hizen-fudo-ki. In Hizen-fudo-ki, Sayo-hime doesn't utter oracles like Momoso-hime, but she talks with a god in shamanistic style and the dialogue forms a legend of the marriage between a god and a human being. More than a mere narrative pattern, the legend seems to have come from a shamanistic experience of narrating, in which the narrator's viewpoint was inextricably merged into that of the object he or she was telling about.
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Ryoichi Watanabe
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Nihon-ryoi-ki is a text about the experience of "knowing." In the 28th part of the second volume, an old woman finds the meaning of a sound she heard and tells it to her acquaintance who then understands what the sound means. Finally the author-narrator Keikai explains the moral of the episode because he "truly knows" the meaning of the sound. Although all the narrators possess the same knowledge, they have a different experience of "knowing." Like the transcribed dream in the 38th part of the second volume, such difference in sameness refers to a unique religious experience which cannot be reduced to any generalization.
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Bunji Takahashi
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Recently the concept of spirituality has been radically changed. No more restricted to mysticism and necromancy but open to such topics as self-transcendence and self-redemption, it has been energetically discussed not just in religious studies but also in medical science, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines. With such a broader understanding of spirituality, here I will treat a relation between landscape and spirituality in the works of the women writers of the Heian Period. Especially in Kagero-nikki, landscape strongly shows a spiritualistic aspect as it corresponds to the subconscious area of mind and has much to do with self-redemption.
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Fumiko Haraoka
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Suetsumuhana is the most mysterious woman in Genji-monogatari, an ugly witch with a "vehicle of the Buddhist saint," i.e., an elephant's trunk in her face. Although she has been regarded as a typical femme fatale, the character seems to be more than a mere female monster. Here I will reconsider her important role in the text by examining the change of her characterization from the "Suetsumuhana" to the "Yomogifu" parts, her presence after the "Tamakazura" part which is less frequent but still impressive, and her relation to Hikaru-Genji.
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Katsuyoshi Fujimoto
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In the age of Genji-monogatari, what the dead said in a dream had a great influence on the daily life of the living. The people of all ranks believed it, for it helped them to understand the world in which disasters, epidemics, and famines unpredictably fell on them every year. Especially the dream oracles of Sugawara-no-Michizane were regarded as most reliable because of the public's sympathy with the tragic poet who heroically challenged the status quo. Interestingly enough, the dream vision of Kiritsubo, a pivotal episode in Genji-monogatari, was modeled after his dream oracles. The aim of this paper is thus to read the dream tale in the light of the relation between dreams and literature in the Heian Period.
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Makoto Kondo
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Yoshiko Yuasa
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Teruhiko Komachiya
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Yoko Sakurai
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