EASC (OSU) and The Office of International Education (Sinclair Community College) present:
Yamauba, A Benevolent and Malevolent Mountain Witch
NORIKO REIDER
Professor, Japanese
Miami University
March 2, 2021
3:30pm (online)
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Abstract: A yamauba is an enigmatic woman living in the mountains, and one of the most popular yōkai (weird or mysterious creatures). She is generally anthropophagous. However, she is not entirely negative or harmful as she is also credited with some nurturing aspects. She can give a principal good character useful advice and treasures. By the end of the seventeenth century, yamauba came to be considered the mother of Kintarō, a legendary child with Herculean strength raised in the mountains. The presentation considers some major characteristics of yamauba, her image, and what a yamauba is.
Contact: Deborah Gavlik, Director, International Education, deborah.gavlik@sinclair.edu
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact Janet Smith at smith.12674@osu.edu or 614-292-3345. Requests made at least two weeks in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
This event is coordinated by the Office of International Education at Sinclair Community College and made possible in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.