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Giovale Library - Plagiarism - Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
Japanese tattoos use japanese mythology as subject matter and are conventionallydone as entire body suits (covering most of the body).
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Extractions: giovale library course research home web resources home Websters Dictionary, (online): pla gia rize "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source. . .to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source." Click here to read Westminster College's Statement on Academic Honesty. Plagiarism is theft. Using someone's work/ideas and passing them off as your own (i.e., not giving credit to the authors by not citing the sources) is legally and ethically wrong. Plagiarism is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE when committed commercially. It is subject to civil and criminal penalties.
E. Japanese Historical Mythology. 2001. The Encyclopedia Of World History
However, japanese mythology commences with a creation myth in which the brothersisterpair of deities, Izanagi and Izanami, descend to Earth, create the
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japanese mythology Basic overview of Japan's deities and myths. japanese mythologyBrief overview of Japanese deities, demons, and ghosts with art work.
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the sun. IZANAGI god in japanese mythology, husband to Izanami.IZANAMI goddess in japanese mythology, wife to Izanagi. KANE
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Extractions: The web site you have requested, The Genesis Project , is one of over 4000 student created entries in our Library. Before using our Library, please be sure that you have read and agreed to our To learn more about ThinkQuest. You can browse other ThinkQuest Library Entries To proceed to The Genesis Project click here Back to the Previous Page The Site you have Requested ... click here to view this site Click image for the Site Languages : Site Desciption "The Genesis Project" is a resource site which has collected creation myths from many societies, from Algonquin to Yuma. A dictionary of creation mythology terms [ Gods and Immortals, Places] is included, as well as a search engine to help you find what you are looking for quickly. Parallel myths are explored; and there is an activity centre for visitors to contribute.
Japanese Culture Section
MATSUBARA, Institute of Language and Cultures, Kyushu University, Research concerningthe origins of the japanese mythology and its hypertextualization.
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Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings Of Japanese Spirituality
Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Category Society Religion and Spirituality Eastern Religions Much can be learned about Shinto's world view from japanese mythology.Two eighthcentury works, the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters
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Extractions: Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions AskAsia The Japanese religious tradition is rich and complex, encompassing within it both complementary and contradictory trends in religious thought and practice with an ease that may occasionally puzzle the Western observer. At the very heart of the tradition stand Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, and Buddhism, the Indian religion that reached Japan in the sixth through eighth centuries A.D. from Korea and China. Throughout the long course of Japanese history, it has been these two religions that have contributed most to the Japanese understanding of themselves and their world. Shinto Shinto was the earliest Japanese religion, its obscure beginnings dating back at least to the middle of the first millennium B.C. Until approximately the sixth century A.D., when the Japanese began a period of rapid adoption of continental civilization, it existed as an amorphous mix of nature worship, fertility cults, divination techniques, hero worship, and shamanism. Unlike Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam, it had no founder and it did not develop sacred scriptures, an explicit religious philosophy, or a specific moral code. Indeed, so unself-conscious were the early Japanese about their religious life that they had no single term by which they could refer to it. The word Shinto , or "the Way of the kami (gods or spirits)," came into use only after the sixth century, when the Japanese sought to distinguish their own tradition from the foreign religions of Buddhism and Confucianism that they were then encountering. Thus, in its origins, Shinto was the religion of a pristine people who, above all, were sensitive to the spiritual forces that pervaded the world of nature in which they lived. As one ancient chronicle reports: in their world myriad spirits shone like fireflies and every tree and bush could speak.
Asian Mythology
I second that ). japanese mythology is really mixed up; there is no strictranking or class of creatures, and nothing approaching taxidermy.
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Extractions: Japanese mythology is really mixed up; there is no strict ranking or class of creatures, and nothing approaching taxidermy. I like to think I know a bit because I'm interested in the subject, and 'cause I majored in classical Japanese literature at a university here and ran across a lot of it. I'll give it my best shot: An Oni is a material bakemono ('creature') whose closest equivalent in European mythology would be an ogre or giant (anyone want to explain to me the difference between those two?). The friendlier oni look more humanlike, but the nasty ones generally are portrayed as having red skin, spiral horns, immense fangs, pointed nails, flaming eyes, and all sorts of other devilish features (never tails or hooves, though). Some oni have magical powers, being able to call down lightning or breathe fire, or eat people's souls. In a lot of medieval manuscripts depicting the various hells, you'll see oni chopping people up, flailing them with thorned whips, forcing them to eat nails, and generally torturing souls and enjoying it. Interestingly missing from Japanese mythology are the tales of battles between the gods and other gods, or the gods and the various monsters and demons of the pantheon.
Japan : Arts And Humanities
Encyclopedia Mythica japanese mythology japanese mythology from A to Z URLhttp//www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/japanese/ Last modified 17-Jul-2000.
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1. japanese mythology Piggot, Juliet PUBLISHED London Paul Hamlyn. 1969. FirstEdition. 3. japanese mythology Piggott, Juliet PUBLISHED Paul Hamlyn.
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LIT Verlag Münster-Hamburg-London
Culturally formed contrasts in Karl Florenz' and lida Takesato's interpretationsof japanese mythology Reihe BUNKA Tübinger interkulturelle und
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Extractions: Iida in his Nihonshoki-tsushaku and Florenz in his Japanische Mythologie approached a comparable endeavor from very different vantage points. It is shown how their distinct cultural formation, their education and upbringing within unlike academic discourses, and their life within a variety of intellectual, social and political milieus formed their different scholarly outlook and methodology in interpreting and commenting on the Nihongi-myths. Comparing both scholars, their work and their mutual relation, we can find a very interesting interaction of cultural and scholarly traditions. Based on translations of both works, this study juxtaposes Iida's `emic' inner view on Japanese mythology with the `etic' outside view of Florenz, and at the same time provides the first portrayal of life and work of these two eminent scholars in English.
Japanese Literature
printing. japanese mythology View selected myths and link to referencematerial on mythology. Contains illustrations and notes.
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Evergreen Journal: Evergreen Society Newsletter: The Stranger In The Mirror
the luxury of spreading the material over twelve hours of lectures, which enabledme to take the plunge into Chinese antiquity, japanese mythology, the bloody
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Extractions: by Gene Oishi Earlier this year I was privileged to give a course to the Evergreen Society entitled "The Japanese American Experience and Identity" which reached back three millennia to ancient China in an attempt to trace my cultural roots. That, one could say, was quite a stretch. When I gave lectures in the past concerning the Japanese American experience, I focused on the internment of Japanese Americans by the United States government during World War II, a period of a mere three years. When I expanded it, it was forward in time, to the effects of the internment on the Japanese American community and the psychological impact of the experience on the Japanese American psyche. At Evergreen, however, I had the luxury of spreading the material over twelve hours of lectures, which enabled me to take the plunge into Chinese antiquity, Japanese mythology, the bloody feudalistic power struggles of ancient Japan, the unbridled imperialism of western nations, the arrival of Japan as a modern state, the rapacious growth of militarism and its disastrous confrontation with the United States. I was also able to examine the history of immigration to the United States and the long struggle of the new arrivals from Europe as well as Asia for acceptance. While that was stretching the idea of personal identity perhaps beyond the breaking point, the lecture series was a part of an attempt to reconcile my childhood and upbringing with American traditions and culture that form the greater part of who I am.
Joo-Young Yoo
Comparative mythology article by Joo-Young Yoo, from the 1994 Berkeley McNair Journal.Category Arts Literature Myths and Folktales Myths Japanese Based on Mishina Shoei's view that japanese mythology evolved from a stage of primitive,to ceremonial, to political mythology, Kim Yeolkyu (1977) has claimed
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Extractions: Faculty Mentor: Professor Mack Horton The present and future are constantly revealed through the past. A country's early chronicles provide an essential means for understanding its history, culture, genealogy, social structure, mythology, language and literature. With that in mind, this paper focuses on the relationship between Japanese and Korean mythologies as a means of understanding the links between these two societies and cultures. Despite the fact that Korea and Japan both have many myths which share similar motifs and beliefs, little in-depth work has yet been done on the comparative mythology of Japan and Korea. Japanese scholars have done most of the work in this area and they have primarily focused on the relationship between these two mythologies in terms of ceremonial and religious theory. For example, Professors Obayashi Taryo and Yoshida Atsuhiko of Japan have applied the important theory of "the tripartite system" to Japanese myths, following Dumzil's system of comparative mythology. There are, however, still more comparative studies that need to be done on the mythologies of these two countries. While there are other works of perhaps greater literary interest, I have chosen to study two early works of Japanese mythistory, Kojiki and Nihon shoki , and two from Korea, Samguk yusa and Samguk sagi . Given the reasons for which they were written and the time during which they were written, I think these national histories are the most important for understanding early Japan and Korea. Of the many possible connections to explore between these two nations' mythologies, I will focus on 1) the origins of kingship, 2) the use of animal imagery in the foundation legends of both countries, and 3) the role played by shamanistic ritual. By carefully studying and comparing these aspectsÑthe patterns in both countries' foundation myths and the presence of shamanistic elements in Korean culture and in Japanese mythÑthe deep historical connection between these two cultures becomes clear, even if it remains unknown how each influenced the other.
A351syllabus
and motifs that appear in Japanese myths and legends; it is for this reason thatstudents are asked to read his short overview of japanese mythology (see below
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Extractions: AND FOLKLORE Syllabus Spring, 2002 Overview of the class: This course is concerned with the comparative study of what can broadly be defined as folk literature (or traditional narratives), that is, myths, epics, legends, sagas, folktales, , "urban legends," anecdotes, jokes, folk beliefs, etc. We will begin with some basic definitions and a narrative classification scheme that will allow us to put the several genres just listed into proper perspective. Then we will consider the principal scholarly theories about myth and folklore, concluding with an overview of a paradigm for the study of myths per se that has recently been developed by Elizabeth J. W. Barber and Paul T. Barber (the Barbers will be guest speakers; see below). After briefly surveying the ancient Indo-European-speaking (I-E) mythological tradition as a whole, as well as the theories of the late , whose ideas will guide us in making sense out of this tradition, we will focus in on three pivotal I-E traditions discussed in Jaan Puhvel's Comparative Mythology (see below): the Indic , the Scandinavian , and the Roman . We will read and discuss portions of the Rig Veda , the Prose Edda , and selected passages from Livy's The Early History of Rome (see below). To facilitate discussion, the class will divide into
Kami No Michi Appendix A
A shimenawa or rope marks off this purified or holy place, which, in view of itsimportance in japanese mythology, is one of the most sacred spots in the whole
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Extractions: Back APPENDIX A TOUR OF THE SHRINE PRECINCTS A worshipper enters Tsubaki Grand Shrine on the omotte sando, the main road, passing the shinboku, the sacred tree that stands in front of the Shishido or Lion Hall, where cars are purified. The first stop is the Te-mizu-ya, the ablution pavilion, where the visitor washes his or her hands and mouth, ladling water first on the left hand, then on the right . A final scoop pours water in the left hand with which to rinse the mouth. Waste water is poured in front of the trough and the visitor proceeds through the great gate, or torii, up the pathway to the main complex. On the left is the area known as Mifunetakara, according to mythology the place where Ninigi-no-Mikoto landed when he descended from heaven to earth. A shimenawa or rope marks off this purified or holy place, which, in view of its importance in Japanese mythology, is one of the most sacred spots in the whole of Japan. Beyond, also on the left, is the grave of Sarutahiko Okami. Although graves theoretically are never found in shrines, because the physical aspect of death causes impurity, the grave of a kami is a rare exception, especially if it is the kami enshrined in that place. As head of the earthly kami, Sarutahiko occupies a special place not only in Japanese mythology but in Japanese pre-history as the bridge between the earthly and the heavenly kami. Opening to the right is the pathway, or sando, to the place where Ame-no-uzume-no-kami is enshrined.
Japan Reference Page - Religion/Japanese Religions
Deadlink Review It! Rate It! japanese mythology Introduction tojapanese mythology, gods and goddesses. URL http//www.artelino
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The Eastern Empires - Religion
japanese mythology. The following dtext is quoted from the Legends Lore supplement for AD D which is available for download in
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Extractions: The following dtext is quoted from the Wizards of the Coast Japan is a land of contradictions. It is a land of tradition and custom, but it is a relative newcomer to the ranks of civilization (its first notable court was created 2,000 years after e first Chinese dynasty). While the same Imperial family has led Japan throughout its fifteen centuries of recorded history, the Emperor has rarely enjoyed more than a nominal control over the affairs of the country. It is a land of incredible beauty and tranquillity that (before the 20th Century) suffered only one serious attempt at invasion, yet Japans fierce samurai warriors are well-known for practicing the grimmest kind of warfare. Japan lies off the east coast of Asia, a chain of volcanic islands somewhat larger in area than Great Britain. It is isolated from its nearest neighbor, Korea, by 100 miles of army sea so difficult and dangerous to cross that it proved the undoing of the only invasion fleet to threaten its shores in ancient times. The islands are mostly mountainous, but there are many fertile plains and flat-bottomed river valleys in which to cultivate crops. It has a temperate climate and dependable rainfall that make it a wonderful place to live. Yet it also lies in the middle of a common hurricane path, and is savaged at least once a year by tremendously destructive typhoons. And, being built upon a chain of volcanic islands, large parts are often shaken by tremendous earthquakes or subjected to a fiery rain of molten rock and ash.
Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Mythology (Religion & Mythology)
Chinese mythology; japanese mythology; Sumerian mythology; West Africanmythology SPECIAL SUBJECTS; Beasts Creatures; Sun Gods. Privacy
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Research Introduction
Structural Analysis of japanese mythology (Particularly the Kojiki). In Japanesemythology binary oppositions are found (such as the Gods of Heaven vs.
http://www.mii.kurume-u.ac.jp/~leuers/research-theme.htm
Yamato Links, Monomyth Website, ORIAS, UC Berkeley
Obayashi, Taryô. The Origins of japanese mythology, Acta Asiatica31, 1977. This article discusses 3 themes in japanese mythology
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Extractions: Literary Histories Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century Chapter One: The Kojiki (33-61). Konishi, Jinichi. A History of Japanese Literature: Volume One . Trans. Aileen Gatten. Princeton: Princeton University press, 1984. [There are many other surveys and histories of Japanese literature. Keenes work is the standard and most general and wide-ranging survey of premodern Japanese literature. It is a good place to start. Each chapter, including the one on Kojiki , comes with a decent bibliography that can suggest further resources. Konishis study is part of a 3-volume history of Japanese literature that has been translated from Japanese into English. It is far more detailed than Keenes survey and focuses much more closely on examining the literary aspects of various genres and periods and the shifts between genres and ages. It should not be ones first introduction to Japanese literature since it assumes quite a bit of knowledge in Japanese literary history, terminology, style, etc., but with an extensive index it can be a useful resource if one wants some more information on a specific topic.]

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