Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan

Introduction 9(4) Interpenetration: Dreams in Medieval Japan 13(28) Dreams 13(3) Life and Death 16(3) Which is the Real Reality? 19(3) I and the Other 22(3) The Concept of Nature 25(2) Ego, Self, and Nature 27(2) The Conscious, the Unconscious, and a Horse 29(2) A Constitution Based on Jinen 31(1) Yuan-ch'i in the Hua-yen School 32(5) Turning Point 37(4) Bodies in the Dream Diary of Myoe 41(26) Myoe 41(2) The First Dream 43(2) Discarding the Body 45(3) The Mother of Buddhas 48(1) Cutting off the Ear and the Appearance of Manjusri Boddhisattva 49(2) Ascending 51(1) Longing for the Buddha 52(1) Matter and Psyche 53(3) The Dream of Zenmyo 56(2) The Picture Stories of the Founders of Hua-Yen 58(5) Coagulation of the Body and of the Mind 63(4) Japanese Mythology: Balancing the Gods 67(32) The Sun Goddess, Amaterasu 67(3) The Counterpart of the Sun Goddess, Susano-Wo 70(3) The Retirement of the Sun Goddess 73(2) The Moon God as the Hollow Center 75(2) The First and Third Triads 77(4) The Repetition of Balancing Movements 81(5) The Hollow Center Structure 86(3) The Discarded God, Hiruko 89(3) The Return of the Discarded Child 92(2) The Fate of Katako 94(5) Japanese Fairy Tales: The Aesthetic Solution 99(54) The Tale of Urashima 99(1) The Dragon Fight 100(2) Aesthetic Solution to Conflicts 102(3) The Forbidden Chamber 105(2) Dreams of the Japanese 107(2) The West and the East 109(1) Beauty and Ugliness 110(2) Transgression and Consciousness 112(3) Legends and Fairy Tales 115(3) The Beauty of Perfection and Completeness 118(5) Torikaebaya: A Tale of Changing Sexual Roles The story of Torikaebaya 123(1) The Exchange of Male and Female Roles 123(3) Love 126(3) Beauty 129(3) Locus 132(4) Ego and Psyche 136(5) Appendix The Changelings: A summary of the Torikaebaya monogatari 141(12) Index 153