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Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)

New Books in Japanese Studies

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Interactions between Texts and Japan's Religion

This chapter explores the impact of Buddhism on Japan's religion, the modification of creation stories to fit a Buddhist worldview, and the process of selecting cover art that conveys the idea of myths being subject to interpretation.

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