![]() It is difficult to translate the term oni because an oni is a being with many facets. For what reason would he have been considered to be an oni? On this year’s setsubun a foreign colleague participated in this ceremony at a temple only to find himself to be the target of people throwing beans and shouting " oni wa soto!" He found himself looked at as if he were an oni. When they throw the beans they shout: " Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi" (Oni get out, luck come in). ON THE LAST DAY OF WINTER, SETSUBUN, the parting of the seasons, people perform a ceremony at temples and in many private houses where they throw beans at imagined or impersonated frightening figures called oni. Oni Go to Heaven: Inoue Yasushi’s Surrealistic Oni no hanashi (A Story of Oni)Īppendix A: Translation of Shibukawa’s Version of Shuten DōjiĪppendix B: Japanese and Chinese Names and Termsįigure 1: An oni in Minister Kibi’s Adventures in Chinaįigure 2: Sugawara no Michizane in the Illustrated Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrineįigure 3: Shuten Dōji entertains Raikō and his vassals with human fleshįigure 5: Yamauba to Kintarō ennenmai (Yamauba and Kintarō, dance)įigure 6: Yamauba to Kintarō genpuku (Yamauba and Kintarō, coming-of-age)įigure 7: Yamauba to Kintarō kamisori (Yamauba and Kintarō, shaving hair)įigure 9: Shuten Dōji entertains Raikō and his vassals with human fleshįigure 10: Shuten Dōji’s severed head lunges at Raikō Foreword Kind and Thoughtful Oni: Naita Akaoni (Red Oni Who Cried) Oni without Negatives: Selfless and Surrealistic Oni Modern Female Oni: Powerful, yet Compromisedĩ. Yumemakura Baku’s Onmyōji (The Yin-Yang Master) Nakagami Kenji’s Oni no hanashi ( A Tale of a Demon) Sex, Violence, and Victimization: Modern Oni and Lonely Japanese Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital)ħ. ![]() Oni as Foreign Enemy in the Second World War Reconfiguration of the Supernatural in Modern Japan Oni and Japanese Identity: Enemies of the Japanese Empire in and out of the Imperial Army ![]() Kotō no Oni (Oni of a Solitary Island): Demonic People in the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense CultureĦ. Oni in Urban Culture: De-demonization of the OniĬommercialization and Urban Culture: Oni as an Example of Yōkaiĭemonic People in Popular Culture of the Early Modern Period Yamauba in the Early Modern Period: Mother of Sakata no KintokiĬhikamatsu’s Komochi Yamauba (Mountain Ogress with a Child)ĥ. Yamauba, the Mountain Ogress: Old Hag to Voluptuous Mother Noh Kanawa: Lingering Affection of a Spurned WomanĤ. Women Spurned, Revenge of Oni Women: Gender and Space The Rise of the Warrior Class and Fall of Oniģ. Shuten Dōji (Drunken Demon): A Medieval Story of the Carnivalesque and the Rise of Warriors and Fall of Oniįrom Simple to Complex: Troubling the Demon The Other: The Oppressed, Alienated, and IsolatedĢ. Includes bibliographical references and index. Japanese demon lore : oni from ancient times to the present / Noriko T. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Manufactured in the United States of America Read moreĬopyright © 2010 Utah State University PressĬover: Artist Unknown, Japanese Minister Kibi’s Adventures in China, Scroll 2 (detail) Japanese, Heian period, 12th century Handscroll ink, color, and gold on paper 32.04 x 458.7 cm (12 5/8 x 180 9/16 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, by exchange, 32.131.2. Reider fully examines their cultural history, multifaceted roles, and complex significance as "others" to the Japanese. Noriko Reiderýs book is the first in English devoted to oni. Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular Japanese anime, manga, and film and are becoming embedded in American and international popular culture through such media. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctivly gendered social and cultural meanings. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres.
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