Reframing the Human-Fish in the Edo and Meiji Periods: Eroticism, Taxidermy, Oracles, and Modernity
This article explores the history of a marine zoo-anthropomorphic hybrid, the human-fish (ningyo), within the socioreligious mindscape of Japan from the second half of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Because of the interspecific anatomy attributed to them, ningyo have always be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2023, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-71 |
| Further subjects: | B
epidemics
B Modernity B Talismans B ningyo B Hybridity B mummies |
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