Fumihiko Kobayashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 315226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fumihiko Kobayashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fumihiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kobayashi |
| SIGNATURE | KOBAYASHI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ritual Symbolism and Culinary Practice in Winter Solstice Folklore
Purpose: This study investigates the symbolic and ritual functions of winter solstice food traditions—particularly red-bean porridge, wontons, and pumpkin-based dishes—in East Asian cultures (China, Korea, and Japan). The research aims to uncover how these culinary customs, rooted in folklore and seasonal cosmology, function as embodied responses to the liminality of the winter solstice, a period historically viewed as both auspicious and dangero…
Mountain Witches
Despite sometimes laughable stories and far-fetched images, many mysterious human-formed creatures inhabit folk cultures around the globe. They are not figments of our pure imagination; some of these creatures represent actual human disasters, and some embody societal injustice and inequalities. In the Japanese folk cultural context, yamauba mountain witches are such figures. Even though they seem familiar, we still have not entirely identified t…
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Playing with Nezumi Toys, Dreaming of Unattainable Utopia
The Japanese have long regarded the nezumi -rats and mice -as vermin that plague agrarian and urban communities. In folk tradition, however, the characterization of the nezumi as amiable, efficacious, and auspicious has formed a powerful motif. As rodenticides and rat traps advertised widely and sold well, nezumi-motif toys such as Daikokuten nezumi (a protector deity of wealth riding on a white nezumi), neko to nezumi (a cat and a nezumi), and k…
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales
The Forbidden Love in Nature. Analysis of the 'Animal Wife' Folktale in Terms of Content Level, Structural Level, and Semantic Level
This study attempts to analyze exemplified tales according to three levels: the content level, the structural level, and the semantic level. The content analysis of the thread of exemplified tales helps us realize the interconnection with their plots and tensions. The structural analysis of this interconnection shows the typological pattern, which describes the constituent structural elements of the example tales. The semantic analysis of that ty…
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The Forbidden Love in Nature. Analysis of the 'Animal Wife' Folktale in Terms of Content Level, Structural Level, and Semantic Level
This study attempts to analyze exemplified tales according to three levels: the content level, the structural level, and the semantic level. The content analysis of the thread of exemplified tales helps us realize the interconnection with their plots and tensions. The structural analysis of this interconnection shows the typological pattern, which describes the constituent structural elements of the example tales. The semantic analysis of that ty…
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales
Playing with Nezumi Toys, Dreaming of Unattainable Utopia
The Japanese have long regarded the nezumi -rats and mice -as vermin that plague agrarian and urban communities. In folk tradition, however, the characterization of the nezumi as amiable, efficacious, and auspicious has formed a powerful motif. As rodenticides and rat traps advertised widely and sold well, nezumi-motif toys such as Daikokuten nezumi (a protector deity of wealth riding on a white nezumi), neko to nezumi (a cat and a nezumi), and k…
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Mountain Witches
Despite sometimes laughable stories and far-fetched images, many mysterious human-formed creatures inhabit folk cultures around the globe. They are not figments of our pure imagination; some of these creatures represent actual human disasters, and some embody societal injustice and inequalities. In the Japanese folk cultural context, yamauba mountain witches are such figures. Even though they seem familiar, we still have not entirely identified t…
Ritual Symbolism and Culinary Practice in Winter Solstice Folklore
Purpose: This study investigates the symbolic and ritual functions of winter solstice food traditions—particularly red-bean porridge, wontons, and pumpkin-based dishes—in East Asian cultures (China, Korea, and Japan). The research aims to uncover how these culinary customs, rooted in folklore and seasonal cosmology, function as embodied responses to the liminality of the winter solstice, a period historically viewed as both auspicious and dangero…
Art (6 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)