Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities
by
Michael Bathgate
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring...