Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Giō And Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage

Brill's Japanese Studies Library #61

by Roberta Strippoli

Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the Tale of the Heike episode of the dancers Giō and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth century and went on to inspire, in often unpredictable ways, countless artistic productions in subsequent centuries.

244 pages, ebook

First published November 20, 2017

About the author

Roberta Strippoli teaches Japanese literature at the University of Napoli "L'Orientale." She has published a collection of medieval Japanese tales in Italian translation titled La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone. Racconti dal medioevo giapponese (Venezia: Marsilio, 2001) and Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess (Leiden: Brill, 2018) a monograph that explores the reception of a character from the fourteenth-century military narrative Heike monogatari over six centuries across literary, visual, performance genres and cultural heritage.