Dreams, myths and fairy tales in Japan

Japanese Fairy Tales and Interpretations : Tale of Urashima; Dragon Fight, Bush Warblers' Home; Adachigahara; Katako (A variation on The Laughter of Oni); The forbidden chamber; Torikaebaya. Dreams : Dream experience in medieval Japan - Jungian insights; p41- 64. Gender Identity : Chapt. 5 and Appendix: The changelings: a summary of the Torikaebaya monogatari; (12th century tale), p123-152.. Aesthetics : Chapt. 4; Beauty and ugliness, p99-121.. Myoe. 1173-1232 :Ch. 2 He kept a dream diary from his 19th to his 58th year (May be first person in world to keep a full dream diary), p41-64.. Gods and Goddesses - Japanese : Ch. 2: Sun goddess, Amaterasu; Moon god, Tsukiyomi; Storm god, Susano- wo; genealogy of the gods, triads, p78-79; dwarf god, p92-94, p67-97.

Revs. of lectures given at Eranos Conferences 1983-1988. This edition ed. by James Gerald Donat.

1. Interpenetration: Dreams in Medieval Japan. 2: Bodies in the dream diary of Myoe (a Japanese Buddhist priest). 3: Japanese mythology: balancing the gods. 4: Japanese fairy tales : the aesthetic solution (Interpretation). 5: Torikaebaya: a tale of changing sexual roles

'This book has grown out of five lectures which originally were delivered at the Eranos Conferences of 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988 and published in the Eranos Jahrbuch Volumes 52-55 and 57.'

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