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Goryo/Shiryo

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Angry ghost
Usually male, cause possession illness and natural disasters, if very powerful may be pacified/deified as beneficent kami (e.g. Michizane)

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Ikiryo

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Tama that leaves living body and possesses others (e.g. Lady Rokujo)

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Shiryo

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Tama that hangs around on earth after death

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Tama

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Life force in individual living beings (e.g. spirit)

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Kami

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Awe-inspiring sacred power in natural objects & phenomena (e.g. waterfall, thunder)
‘God-like’

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Jobutsu

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After death, with proper rituals the Tama becomes a Buddha

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Muenbotoke

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Medieval Buddhist term: tama with no link to the living, needs rituals to achieve peace/enlightenment

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Ujigami

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Communal life force, clan deity, combination of kami and tama/shiryo (e.g. Ameratsu, ancestor deity of Yamato clan)

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Yakujin

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Illness/epidemic kami

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Yurei

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Hazy, dim ghosts from edo period

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Sugawara no Michizane

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Heian period

  • Professor of literature
  • Governor
  • Appointed to high office
  • Exiled, prays and dies
  • 4 rivals struck dead
  • Emperor proclaims him as deity
  • Becomes Tenman Tenjin
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Emperor Daigo

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Emperor during Michizane’s story, he believes what Fujiwara tells him and orders the exile of Michizane

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Fujiwara no Tokihira

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Enemy/rival of Michizane, he falls ill and dies because the monk stops praying

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Doken

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Yamabushi ascetic that dies and has a vision of Michizane and revives

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Lady Rokujo

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High rank widow that desires Genji’s attention, her ikiryo possesses Lady Aoi after repressing her jealousy
Male ideal’s antithesis

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Lady Aoi

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Pregnant wife of Genji, vulnerable at time of possession

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Murasaki Shikibu

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Author of tale of Genji (Heian)

  • Daughter of a minor Fujiwara clan branch
  • Lady-in-waiting to empress
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Iemon

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Samurai that kills father of Oiwa, he also kills Oiwa and then gets haunted by her. He is murdered by Oiwa’s siblings that learnt about his secret.

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Oiwa

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Iemon’s wife (onryo after death)

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Kohei

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Iemon’s servant, acted as an admirer of Oiwa

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Izumi Kyoka

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Popular modern japanese literature writer
Mysophobic
Oedipus complex
Wrote ‘The Holy man of Mount Koya’

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Miko

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Medium, commonly female, passive, lets spirits use her as a vehicle

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Ascetic

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Commonly male, active, travels to the spirit world

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Okiku

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Female edo ghost

  • Maid of samurai who wanted her as his mistress
  • Is referenced in the Chrysanthemum Beetle (Kikumushi)
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Otsuyu

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Sick daughter of a high-class family, gets visited from doctor and young samurai. He never returns so she dies and comes back to visit him with a lantern

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Oyone

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Servant or maid of Otsuyu, she dies for her and is loyal to her, makes trade with Samurai’s servants

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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn

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European-born American author, wrote novels/articles

  • Married a japanese and got a japanese citizenship
  • Translated Botan Doro (Passional Karma) into English
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Edo/Tokugawa period

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Premodern era

  • Politics: After Warring States Period, Tokugawa takes control
  • Religion: Away from Buddhism, towards Neo-Confucianism
  • Hierarchy based on filial piety
  • Economics: growth of merchant class, samurais become government admins (bureaucrats), mercantile urban economy flourishes
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Edo class system

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Emperor
1. Samurai
2. Peasants
3. Artisans
4. Merchants
Prostitutes/outcasts
  • Tension between samurais and merchants
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Bushido (code of the samurai)

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  • Righteousness
  • Heroic courage
  • Benevolence/compassion
  • Integrity
  • Duty and loyalty
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Heian period

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Classical era

  • Widespread fear of angry ghosts
  • Exorcism specialists developed
  • Write poetry to impress women
  • Ghosts are presented as how they looked when they were alive
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Kabuki theatre

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Edo period

  • Instant popularity
  • Art of singing and dancing
  • Male performers mainly
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Noh theatre

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  • After fear of ghosts waned, specialists lost their jobs as exorcists
  • First form of theater: theatrical representations of famous exorcisms
  • Minimalism (yugen): roof, pine trees, simple music, slow movement
  • Kyogen: comedic interludes
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5 categories of Noh

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  1. God plays
  2. Warrior plays
  3. Women plays
  4. Demon plays
  5. Misc plays
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Noh actors/roles

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  • Shite (doer): unenlightened one
  • Waki (sideman): sees universal truth
  • Tsure (companion)
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Obon festival

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Annual Buddhist event to celebrate ancestors

- Lanterns guide ghosts to material world and back to spirit world

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Parable of Burning house

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Father = Buddha
Children = sentient beings that are lured by pleasures
Big cart = nirvana
Buddha guides people to enlightenment before the flames entrap them in sinful pleasures

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Setsuwa

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Spoken story

  • Two types:
    1. General: doctrinal matters
    2. Buddhist: strange and miraculous
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Shamanism

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Two worlds: spirit and material
Two functions:
1. Prophecies
2. Pacification/exorcism

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4 oracles on Michizane

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Michizane communicates through oracles

  • Prostitute (political) proclaims that rebel is the new emperor
  • Doken’s dream oracle: he is not the god of thunder and lightning
  • Peasant: vision to build a shrine
  • 7-year-old son of priest:
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Yin-Yang

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Harmony: opposite forces that are interconnected and interdependent 
- Taoist concept
Characteristics:
- Unity and perfect harmony 
- Exist in each other
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Yugen

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Japanese aesthetics

  • Elegance, mournful beauty
  • Minimalism
  • Important in Noh drama
  • Beauty in mysterious and darkness
43
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Tale of Genji

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  • Aoi no Ue (Noh)
  • The Wildwood Shrine (Noh)

Characters:

  • Lady Rokujo
  • Lady Aoi
44
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Ghost story of Yotsuya

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Characters: Iemon, Oiwa, Kohei

Film and Kabuki play

45
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Passional Karma, Botan Doro, Peony lantern

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Characters: Otsuyu and Oyone

  • One of the most famous kaidan
  • Obon festival
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Okiku and Kikumushi

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Film - dish mansion at Bancho
Literature - Chrysanthemum beetle
- A reflection of Okiku’s story in the modern world

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Legend of the white snake

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Noh - Dojoji

  • Setsuwa
  • Serpent woman disguised as a dancer
  • Daughter of high-class man
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Holy man of mount koya

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Characters: I, monk, woman, husband, old man
Themes:
- modern vs classic
- Motherhood
- Symbolisms (leeches, water, crossroad)
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The ring

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Economic background

  • Technological advancements
  • Psychological purge, reflects the anxiety in society surrounding the economic decline
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Ugetsu (film)

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  • Warring states period
  • Men leave their wives to pursue their dreams
  • Wanted to feel the joys of a woman (love), muenbotoke
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Ugetsu (literatures)

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Reed-choked house
- man goes to capital to earn money, leaves her wife and gets sick, he stays in capital for 7 years
Serpent’s lust
- heian period

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