...John Young Izumo Fudoki . By M. Y. Aoki . Tokyo : Monumenta Nipponica , 1971 . 145 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 675 bution of variants of a normative example. Dr. Ikeda refers to several...

... of 136 references to countries. Folklorists who depend upon indexes will be pleased with this volume. Japanologists will find the Japanese Index, pp. 349-356, of the most value. Here are listed titles of stories as they may appear in Japanese collections. FANNY HAGIN MAYER Whittier, Calif. Izumo Fudoki...

... with Introduction and Commentaries. By M I C H I K O Y. A O K I . Monograph and Occasional Paper Series, Number 53- Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 347 pp. $36.00. This scholarly English translation of all five major extant "old fudoki" provides accounts of the provinces of Hitachi, Izumo...

... they are called that or what Igazuri means. Similar examples would be Torikona dance and Izumo no \uni no miyatsultp, etc. Izumo no \uni no miyatsu\o has a very important meaning and function in Shinto history other than being noted as a local chieftan of Izumo province having fifth court rank...

... that or what Igazuri means. Similar examples would be Torikona dance and Izumo no \uni no miyatsultp, etc. Izumo no \uni no miyatsu\o has a very important meaning and function in Shinto history other than being noted as a local chieftan of Izumo province having fifth court rank. But these are minor points...

... Japan. The shift from the /(yodotai to the dai \azo\u system in agricultural areas during the sixth and the seventh centuries and the significance of village shrines vis-a-vis the Yamato Court policy, for instance, could be traced from fudo\i (e.g., Ta\erube no Sato of Izumo no Kori). There are some...

..., unofficiously called "student of architecture," is the author of several books on Japanese mythology often controversial to be sure but unnecessarily ignored by archaeologists and deserves a better hearing. He takes Okuninushi of Izumo to be the earliest of the named deities and to be the embodiment of the hero...

... "student of architecture," is the author of several books on Japanese mythology often controversial to be sure but unnecessarily ignored by archaeologists and deserves a better hearing. He takes Okuninushi of Izumo to be the earliest of the named deities and to be the embodiment of the hero concept...

... this over other equally possible explanations such as the solar eclipse or the day-after-night theses, or the faint echoes of political strife with the 377 Izumo people suggested in Sansom's History of Japan to 1334. Also, it is not at all certain that the Imperial clan claimed descent from the Sun Goddess...

... standards throughout Japanese history, beginning with the Grand Shrines of Ise and Izumo in the first millennium. Tseng's presentation is smart, deft, and clean. Her writing is crisp and steady, rather elegant at times, and mostly free of burdensome jargon. The volume is graciously and colorfully...

... I K O Y. A O K I . Monograph and Occasional Paper Series, Number 53- Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 347 pp. $36.00. This scholarly English translation of all five major extant "old fudoki" provides accounts of the provinces of Hitachi, Izumo, Harima, Bungo, and Hizen...

... retainers") with "copybook" having the second meaning of "exemplars." It was written in 1748 by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu, and has remained the most popular play based on the vendetta of 1703 in which forty-six men, led by Oishi Kuranosuke, beheaded the man (Kira) who had caused...

... surveys, conducted in 1953 and 1957, the author relied on samples drawn from voter registration lists in remotely rural Izumo and intensely urban Osaka. He has not only compared the results from these two areas, but has added a most enlightening third dimension by comparing them in turn with various...

... relied on samples drawn from voter registration lists in remotely rural Izumo and intensely urban Osaka. He has not only compared the results from these two areas, but has added a most enlightening third dimension by comparing them in turn with various national surveys (including one of his own...

... Watari no Hitobito” [People crossing to the pure land of Fudaraku]. In Kazan Rettō no Shisō . Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō . Aoki Michiko Yamaguchi , trans. 1971 . Izumo Fudoki . Tokyo : Sophia University Press . Kenkyūjo Minzokugaku , ed. 1956 . Sōgō Nihon Minzoku Goi [Dictionary...

... in 1719 and adapted for the kabuki theater the following year. Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy, written by Takeda Izumo, Namiki Senryu, and Miyoshi Shdraku in 1746 for the puppet theater, was taken into the kabuki theater the same year. These are classified as history plays. The other two plays Benten...

..., mostly composed during the eighteenth century. Playwrights such as Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sosuke (Senryu), and Chikamatsu Hanji wrote the core of an enormous collection totaling more than one thousand full-length plays. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Joruri...

... performs a vast and rich repertoire, mostly composed during the eighteenth century. Playwrights such as Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sosuke (Senryu), and Chikamatsu Hanji wrote the core of an enormous collection totaling more than one thousand full-length plays. During the eighteenth...

... categories which are otherwise represented in this volume. JAPANESE HISTORY 157 Among the four titles of officers in the Nara administrative system, for instance, we are given the last (sa\an: clerk) and not the first (\ami: chief). There is an entry for "tozama daimyo" but not for fudai; for "Izumo Taisha...

... in Taegu, Korea [HONG N. KIM] 955 SINITSYN, Ocherly ekpnomikf Yuzhnoi Korei (1953-1964) [GEORGE CINSBURGS] 693 so, Choson Wan-jo Hyongsajedo ui Yon'gu [WILLIAM SHAW] 417 Japan AOKI, Izumo Fudo\i [JOHN YOUNG] 675 BERGAMINI, Japan's Imperial Conspiracy [SHUMPEI OKAMOTO] BIEDA, The Structure and Operation...