Le Japon des femmes, du IIème siècle à nos jours. Voyages a selection of preparatory works

a selection of preparatory works and Japanese prints

It had an international impact

Rediscovered a few years ago

oni was a generic term for all evil spirits

Le Japon des femmes, du IIème siècle à nos jours. Voyages a selection of preparatory worksThe legends of ancient Japan's matriarchal society are filled with queens and empresses, priestesses, and goddesses. Shintoism has many important female deities, beginning with the sun goddess Amaterasu, from whom the imperial family is said to descend. But from around the 5th century, with the introduction of Buddhism and Confucian thought, women were gradually confined to a subordinate role, although many aristocrats managed to preserve their