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Foreword |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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1 An Overview: What are Oni? |
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Origins, Etymology and Formation of Oni |
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4 | (6) |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (2) |
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The Other: The Oppressed, Alienated, and Isolated |
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18 | (5) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (6) |
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2 Shuten Doji (Drunken Demon): A Medieval Story of the Carnivalesque and the Rise of Warriors and Fall of Oni |
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30 | (23) |
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From Simple to Complex: Troubling the Demon |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (3) |
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Carnivalesque Festivities |
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37 | (5) |
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42 | (6) |
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48 | (3) |
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The Rise of the Warrior Class and Fall of Oni |
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51 | (2) |
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3 Women Spurned, Revenge of Oni Women: Gender and Space |
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53 | (8) |
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Uji no hashihime (Woman at Uji Bridge) |
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53 | (1) |
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The Stories of Uji no hashihime |
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53 | (2) |
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Uji no hashihime vs. Shuten Doji |
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55 | (2) |
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Sociopolitical Space for Gendered Oni |
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57 | (1) |
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Noh Kanawa: Lingering Affection of a Spurned Woman |
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58 | (3) |
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4 Yamauba, the Mountain Ogress: Old Hag to Voluptuous Mother |
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61 | (29) |
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62 | (2) |
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Yamauba as Great Mother and Nurturer |
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64 | (4) |
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Image of Yamauba in the Medieval Period |
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68 | (1) |
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Yamauba in the Early Modern Period: Mother of Sakata no Kintoki |
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69 | (7) |
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Chikamatsu's Komochi Yamauba (Mountain Ogress with a Child) |
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76 | (8) |
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84 | (6) |
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5 Oni in Urban Culture: De-demonization of the Oni |
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The Edoites' Belief System |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (3) |
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Commercialization and Urban Culture: Oni as an Example of Yokai |
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95 | (3) |
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Demonic People in Popular Culture of the Early Modern Period |
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98 | (2) |
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Koto no Oni (Oni of a Solitary Island): Demonic People in the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense Culture |
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100 | (4) |
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6 Oni and Japanese Identity: Enemies of the Japanese Empire in and out of the Imperial Army |
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104 | (16) |
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Reconfiguration of the Supernatural in Modern Japan |
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105 | (2) |
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Oni as Foreign Enemy in the Second World War |
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107 | (6) |
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Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital) |
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113 | (7) |
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7 Sex, Violence, and Victimization: Modern Oni and Lonely Japanese |
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120 | (24) |
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Nakagami Kenji's "Oni no hanashi" ("A Tale of a Demon") |
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121 | (10) |
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Yumemakura Baku's Onmyoji (The Yin-Yang Master) |
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131 | (13) |
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8 Oni in Manga, Anime, and Film |
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144 | (26) |
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Apocalyptic and Elegiac Oni |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (5) |
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Shuten Doji (A Child Handed from Heaven) |
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151 | (3) |
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Akira Kurosawa's "The Weeping Demon" |
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154 | (1) |
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Modern Female Oni: Powerful, yet Compromised |
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155 | (1) |
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Urusei Yatsura: The Cute Sexy Oni |
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155 | (3) |
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Bigheaded Yamauba in Spirited Away |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (1) |
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Yasha and Dog in InuYasha |
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163 | (2) |
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Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider) in InuYasha |
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165 | (2) |
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Tsuchigumo in Spirited Away |
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167 | (3) |
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9 Oni without Negatives: Selfless and Surrealistic Oni |
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170 | (7) |
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Kind and Thoughtful Oni: Naita Akaoni (Red Oni Who Cried) |
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170 | (3) |
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Oni Go to Heaven: Inoue Yasushi's Surrealistic "Oni no hanashi" (A Story of Oni) |
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173 | (4) |
Conclusion |
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177 | (8) |
Appendix A Translation of Shibukawa's Version of Shuten Doji |
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185 | (19) |
Appendix B Japanese and Chinese Names and Terms |
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204 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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210 | (21) |
Index |
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