...Catherine Ryu Mountain Witches: Yamauba . By Noriko Tsunoda Reider . Logan : Utah State University Press , an imprint of University Press of Colorado, 2021 . xiv, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781646420544 (paper). © 2023 the Association of Asian Studies 2023 Book Reviews Northeast Asia 251...

...Catherine Ryu Mountain Witches: Yamauba . By Noriko Tsunoda Reider . Logan : Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado , 2021 . xiv, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781646420544 . Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch . Edited by Rebecca Copeland...

...Radhika Govindrajan Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century . By Luke Whitmore . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2018 . 278 pp. ISBN: 9780520298026 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 In June...

...Ralph Crozier Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China . Edited by Godwin C. Chu and Francis L. K. Hsu . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1979 . ix , 446 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK...

...Loretta E. Kim Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands . By David A. Bello . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 350 pp. ISBN: 9781107068841 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Frank M. LeBar Mountain Arbiters: The Changing Life of a Philippine Hill People . By Edward P. Dozier . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1966 . xx, 299 pp. Illustrations, References, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. The Kalinga of Northern Luzon, Philippines . By Edward P...

...Ghulam J. Arez Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 . By Leon B. Poullada . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1973 . xvii, 318 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. $14.50. Afghanistan: Political Modernization of a Mountain-Kingdom . By Balwant Bhaneja . New Delhi : Spectra...

...Forrest R. Pitts Two Japanese Villages: Matsunagi, A Japanese Mountain Community; Kurusu, A Japanese Agricultural Community . By John B. Cornell and Robert J. Smith . Center for Japanese Studies, Occasional Papers No. 5. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1956 . xiv, 232 . Maps...

...William Londo Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha . By Philip L. Nicoloff . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2008 . xvii , 392 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Frank Hoff BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 165 Mountain Storm, Pine Breeze: Folk Song in Japan. By PATRIA R. ISAKU. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. 126 pp. Discography, Bibliography, Index. $6.50. The tradition of song in Japan is coextensive with that of poetry. The mass of what remains from...

... for International Development Soul, Spirit, and Mountain: Preoccupations of Contemporary Indonesian Painters. By ASTRI W R I G H T . Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxiv, 270 pp. $105.00. I was on my way to Indonesia when Astri Wright's important and beautifully produced new work, Soul, Spirit...

...Jean R. Renshaw The Mountain is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives . By Patricia Morley . New York : New York University Press , 1999 . 226 pp. $28.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1025 honor and revenge. Other denizens of Osaka's...

...Laurence Kominz Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyōgen . By Carolyn Ann Morley . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell East Asian Series, Cornell University , 1993 . xi, 229 pp. $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK...

...Matthew T. Kapstein The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet . By Toni Huber . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1999 . xv, 297 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK...

...Jerry Dennerline Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History . By John E. Wills Jr . Priceton : Princeton University Press , 1994 . xx, 403 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 547 carefully to clear from...

...Vincent Y. C. Shih Cold Mountain . Trans, by Burton Watson . New York : Grove Press, Inc. , 1962 . 122 . $2.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 475 Early Chinese Literature. By BURTON WATSON. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. vii...

... in a way that reanimates material objects with the kind of vitality that inspired their creation. Of primary interest to art historians, Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains is, I think, an offering born of devotion, a work of art unto itself, and a powerful intellectual intervention. Chapter 5...

...Peter Hyun The Ever White Mountain: Korean Lyrics in the Classical Sijo Form . By Inez Kong Pai . Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1965 . 175 pp. Bibliography, Index of Poems. $4.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 127...

...Christopher Nelson Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain . By Ellen Schattschneider . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xiv, 268 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 804 T H E J O U R...

...Yi-Li Wu A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the “Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories.” . By Joanna Grant . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xi , 209 pp. $114.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 442 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U...