... her arms. Oiwa was thus figured as an ubume 産女 (literally, "a woman giving birth"), a particular ... audience of Nanboku's day. Nanboku employs the ubume in a number of earlier plays—indeed, it ... in almost all of his major ghost plays. Ubume were ubiquitous in the theater and literature of ... and the kabuki theater's mobilization of the ubume as a dramatic trope and of the [End Page 209] roles the ubume played in the broader context of nineteenth-century ... so pervasively with pregnancy, and also why the ubume became so popular as a motif, particularly in ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2011 - Sophia University | Monumenta Nipponica
The Ubume Challenge is my digital environmental humanities project that contextualizes the folkloric figure the ubume (“birthing woman”) through an ecocritical lens. Because The Ubume Challenge is unique in its format and aims, ... s “Introduction” (https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/the-ubume-challenge-a-digital-environmental-humanities-project/introduction?path= ... Critical Statement” (https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/the-ubume-challenge-a-digital-environmental-humanities-project/critical-statement). ... folklore, if a mother dies in childbirth, the ubume forms out her spiritual attachment to her child. ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
2023 - University of Illinois Press | Journal of American Folklore
... as Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Spooky Tales) and Ubume no natsu (The Summer of the Ubume). Chapter 3, Yokai Practice/ Theory, describes the yokai ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2016 - Western States Folklore Society | Western Folklore