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Hardcover Datsueba the Clothes Snatcher: The Evolution of a Japanese Folk Deity from Hell Figure to Popular Savior Book
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ISBN: 9004514414

ISBN13: 9789004514416

Datsueba the Clothes Snatcher: The Evolution of a Japanese Folk Deity from Hell Figure to Popular Savior

(Book #71 in the Brill's Japanese Studies Library Series)

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The first comprehensive study in English of the Japanese hell figure Datsueba explores her evolution since her eleventh-century emergence as a terrifying old woman who strips the clothes of the dead in the afterworld.
Drawing widely on literature, art, and worship practices, the author reveals how the creative utilization of Datsueba's key attributes--including a marker of borders, a keeper of cloth, and an elderly woman--transformed her into...

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