Yōkai – japońskie duchy liminalne = Yōkai – Japan Liminal Spirits

The goal of this paper is to introduce Japanese demonology. The paper focuses on the spirits known as yōkai, providing answers from the incredibly scarce publications in Polish covering issues related to Japanese demonology. The article examines the origin of the term yōkai and thedifferences in mea...

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Published in:Studia religiologica
Subtitles:Yōkai – Japan Liminal Spirits
Main Author: Spurgiasz, Michał (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Polish
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Published: Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego 2015
In: Studia religiologica
Further subjects:B Yōkai
B demonologia japońska
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Summary:The goal of this paper is to introduce Japanese demonology. The paper focuses on the spirits known as yōkai, providing answers from the incredibly scarce publications in Polish covering issues related to Japanese demonology. The article examines the origin of the term yōkai and thedifferences in meaning between yōkai, mononoke and ayakashi. It goes on to explain the difference between yōkai and kami, as well as introducing a categorisation of spirits to explain how new yōkai are generated
ISSN:2084-4077
Contains:Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.15.005.3134