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An Overview: What are Oni?
Origins, Etymology and Formation of Oni
The Japanese Line
The Chinese Line
The Buddhist Line
The Onmyodo Line
Characteristics of Oni
Cannibalism
Transformation Power
The Other: The Oppressed, Alienated, and Isolated
Lightning
Prosperity
Shuten Doji (Drunken Demon): A Medieval Story of the Carnivalesque and the Rise of Warriors and Fall of Oni
Legends of Shuten Doji
From Simple to Complex: Troubling the Demon
Texts of Shuten Doji
The Shuten Doji Story
Carnivalesque Festivities
Shuten Doji as Other
Origins of Shuten Doji
The Rise of the Warrior Class and Fall of Oni
Women Spurned, Revenge of Oni Women: Gender and Space
Uji no hashihime (Woman at Uji Bridge)
The Stories of Uji no hashihime
Uji no hashihime vs. Shuten Doji
Sociopolitical Space for Gendered Oni
Noh Kanawa: Lingering Affection of a Spurned Woman
Yamauba, the Mountain Ogress: Old Hag to Voluptuous Mother
Cannibalism
Yamauba as Great Mother and Nurturer
Image of Yamauba in the Medieval Period
Yamauba in the Early Modern Period: Mother of Sakata
no Kintoki
Chikamatsu's Komochi Yamauba (Mountain Ogress with a Child)
The Alluring Yamauba
Oni in Urban Culture: De-demonization of the Oni
The Edoites' Belief System
De-demonized Oni
Commercialization and Urban Culture: Oni as an
Example of Yokai
Demonic People in Popular Culture of the Early Modern Period
Koto no Oni (Oni of a Solitary Island): Demonic People in the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense Culture
Oni and Japanese Identity: Enemies of the Japanese Empire in and out of the Imperial Army
Reconfiguration of the Supernatural in Modern Japan
Oni as Foreign Enemy in the Second World War
Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital)
Sex, Violence, and Victimization: Modern Oni and Lonely Japanese
Nakagami Kenji's "Oni no hanashi" ("A Tale of a Demon")
Yumemakura Baku's Onmydji (The Yin-Yang Master)
Oni in Manga, Anime, and Film
Apocalyptic and Elegiac Oni
Nagai G6's Oni
Debiruman (Devilman)
Shuten Doji (A Child Handed from Heaven)
Akira Kurosawa's "The Weeping Demon"
Modern Female Oni: Powerful, yet Compromised
Urusei Yatsura: The Cute Sexy Oni
Bigheaded Yamauba in Spirited Away
Yokai and Oni Variants
Yasha and Dog in InuYasha
Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider) in InuYasha
Tsuchigumo in Spirited Away
Oni without Negatives: Selfless and Surrealistic Oni
Kind and Thoughtful Oni: Naita Akaoni (Red Oni Who Cried)
Oni Go to Heaven: Inoue Yasushi's Surrealistic "Oni
no hanashi" (A Story of Oni)
Conclusion
Appendix A: Translation of Shibukawa's Version of Shuten Doji
Appendix B: Japanese and Chinese Names and Terms
