The Dragon in China and JapanCosimo, Inc., 1 dic 2008 - 258 pagine Little is known of Dutch author MARINUS WILLEM DE VISSER (1876-1930) beyond his academic life as a classicist with an interest in Chinese and Japanese language and culture, and as a popularizer of Japanese art in the Netherlands. He is best remembered today for having given us a cornerstone examination of the legends of fantastic flying reptiles known as dragons. The Dragon in China and Japan contains "the most interesting quotations concerning the dragon in China, systematically arranged, selected from the enormous number of passages on this fantastic animal in Chinese literature, from the remotest eras down to modern times," notes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction. Coleman also praises the book's use of primary source material. "If cryptozoologists are to study the Asian dragons of India, China, and Japan, it must not be done through the screen of today's New Age mentality. Scholarly, level-headed examinations of living, breathing reports of serpentine flying beasts, water-borne megafauna, and shadowy entities must be balanced with investigations of the legends and folktales of these dragons from Asian texts," such as de Visser's here. This new edition, a replica of the 1913 first edition complete with extensive notes in the original Asian alphabet, is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. |
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Iago | 18 |
The Naga as a giver of rain | 21 |
Page | 29 |
BOOK I | 35 |
Lucky omens | 43 |
Bad omens | 45 |
B Dead dragons | 49 |
CHAPTER III | 152 |
Horses offered to Shinto gods | 156 |
Buddhism wins field | 158 |
The Sacred Spring Park | 159 |
The Dragonhole on Mount Murobu 168 | 168 |
Reborn as a raingiving dragon | 170 |
Buddhist priests dominating the dragons | 171 |
Dragonwomen in ponds | 172 |
Dragons appearing at wrong times | 50 |
Dragons appearing in wrong places | 54 |
Dragonhorses | 59 |
CHAPTER III | 62 |
Nature of the dragons | 63 |
What dragons like and dislike | 67 |
Shape of the dragons | 70 |
Male and female dragons | 71 |
Different kinds of dragons | 72 |
Kiao lung f | 76 |
Rearing and taming dragons | 82 |
Dragons ridden by sien or drawing the cars of gods and holy men | 83 |
Dragontailroad and other words connected with the dragon | 85 |
Dragongate | 86 |
Dragons dens | 87 |
Dragons pearls | 88 |
Dragons bones skins teeth horns brains livers placentae and foetus used as medicines | 90 |
Dragons blood fat and saliva | 96 |
CHAPTER IV | 99 |
Nine different kinds of dragons used as ornaments | 101 |
Ornaments used by Wuist priests aud mediums | 102 |
The dragons and the ball | 103 |
CHAPTER V | 109 |
Violent rains accompanied by heavy winds and thunderstorms | 111 |
Rain magic and prayers | 113 |
Buddhist rain ceremonies | 121 |
Hwang Ti rode on a dragon | 122 |
Appearing as snakes dogs or rats | 129 |
BOOK II | 135 |
Mizuchi the rivergods | 137 |
OJtowatatsumi the seagod | 139 |
The jewels of flood and ebb | 142 |
Tukciwa Tatsu no Mikoto the dragongod of a sacred pond in lligo province | 143 |
An Emperors dragontail | 145 |
CHAPTER II | 146 |
Dragonhorses | 147 |
Carriage of a ghost drawn through the air by eight dragons | 150 |
Stirring up the dragons by throwing iron or filth into their ponds | 174 |
A dragon engraved on an incense pot believed to cause rain Pine trees cause clouds to rise and rain to fall | 175 |
The eight Dragonkings | 176 |
A Buddhist dragons suicide | 177 |
CHAPTER IV | 179 |
Dragons appear at the dedication of Buddhist temples | 180 |
Dragons living in ponds or lakes mostly near Buddhist shrines | 181 |
Reborn as dragons | 184 |
Dragonkings of the sea check the course of vessels in order to obtain special Buddhist treasures as offerings | 187 |
The jewel which grants all desires cintamani | 189 |
The Dragongods of the inner and outer seas | 190 |
Dragonpalaces | 191 |
Dragons connected with Buddhist priests | 193 |
Eight dragons ridden through the sky by a Buddhist deity | 194 |
Relics of dragons preserved in Buddhist temples | 195 |
The Dragonflowermeeting | 196 |
CHAPTER V | 197 |
The Thundergod caught by Sukaru and identified with a Dragonking | 199 |
Watatsumi no kami the Seagod identified with a Dragonking | 201 |
The dragonhole in the don shrine | 202 |
The Heavenly Dragons Well at the Suwa shrine | 203 |
Kurikara Myoo the dragonshaped mountaingod | 204 |
CHAPTER VI | 205 |
Kobo Daishis spirit | 206 |
Jigen Daishis spirit | 207 |
Tidestones connected with dragonlanterns | 209 |
The Mountainlight and the Dragonlantern of Gammokuzan in Etchu province | 210 |
Tomyodake Kumano CJongen at Nogami Kwomyoji at Kama kura and Zenkwoji at Nagano | 211 |
The lights of Ushijima Ishidozan and Kurikara | 212 |
Ignes fatui in general The dragonlantern is the only one which arises from the sea and flies to the mountains | 213 |
CHAPTER VII | 215 |
Dragons born from beautiful stones picked up in the mountains | 216 |
Thunderstones | 219 |
Dragons which ascended to heaven | 220 |
The Chinese and Indian dragons ryu or ryo | 227 |
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