Автор: Franl Rinder
Название: Old-World Japan Legends of the Land of the Gods
Издательство: L.: George Allen
Год: 1895
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,1 mb
Страниц: 195
History and mythology, fact and fable, are closely interwoven in the texture of Japanese life and thought. The accounts of the God-perjod contained in the Kojiki and the Nihongj — „Reccods of Ancient Matters” compiled, in the eighth century of the Christian era — profess to outline the events of the vast cycles of years from the time of Ame-no-mi-naka-nushi-no-kami’s birth in the Plain of High Heaven, “when the earth, young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa-like,” to the death of the Empress Suiko, a.d. 628.
The first six tales in this little volume are founded on some of the most significant and picturesque incidents of this God-period. The opening legend gives a brief relation of the birth of several of the great Shinto deities, of the creation of Japan and of the world, of the Orpheus-like descent of Izanagi to Hades, and of his subsequent fight with the demons.
The tales contained in this volume have been selected with a view rather to their beauty and charm of incident and colour, than with the aim to represent adequately the many-sided subject of Japanese lore.
