Beyong emotion: ritual weeping in Japanese Myth and custom
Beyong emotion : ritual weeping in Japanese myth and custom

Summary/Abstract: My paper is an attempt to explain the ritual aspect of weeping in Japanese tradition. Tears and weeping have always played a major role in the recorded history of human traditions and rituals, but weeping itself has been usually analyzed from a psychological perspective, as a bodily manifestation pertaining to spontaneous emotion rather than a volitional , controlled gesture.

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