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Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known for her writings on religion, myth and folklore -most notably The Catalpa Bow. A third of the volume comprises extracts from her diaries covering more than forty years, with a plate section drawn from her photographic archive - an opportunity for insight into her life and work.

This set of volumes is part of a major new series, and features the collected writings of some of the most outstanding Western scholars who have been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the last half century.

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.