The stripper goddess of Japan : the life and afterlives of Ame no Uzume /

The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one of Japan's most influential post-war intellectuals, Tsurumi Shunsuke (1922-2015). Tsurumi regarded this book as the most important of his vast and v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tsurumi, Shunsuke, 1922-2015 (Author)
Other Authors:	Aoyama, Tomoko (Translator), Bailey, Penny (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tokyo : Trans Pacific Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Japan > Intellectual life > 1945- Japan > Civilization > 1945- Goddesses, Japanese. Mythology, Japanese. Entertainers > Japan > Anecdotes. Japon > Vie intellectuelle > 1945- Japon > Civilisation > 1945- Mythologie japonaise. Artistes du spectacle > Japon > Anecdotes. Goddesses, Japanese Mythology, Japanese Japan Intellectual life Entertainers Anecdotes

Table of Contents:

The power to open a closed cave
A genealogy of likening
A light in the dark night
Laughter and politics
The naked body as metaphor
The day Japan became naked
Painting the body in two colours
Ame no Uzume in the home
Japan and abroad
Past and present.