The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture
The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture by Michael Bathgate
English | 8 Jan. 2004 | ISBN: 0415968216 | 210 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | 8 Jan. 2004 | ISBN: 0415968216 | 210 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others.