Datsueba the Clothes Snatcher
The Evolution of a Japanese Folk Deity from Hell Figure to Popular Savior
By Chihiro Saka
2022
First Published
265
Number of Pages
Part of Series
The first full-length study in English to explore Datsueba, the old woman of hell, and her transformation from terrifying ogre to beneficent guardian over a millennium of evolution within the Japanese religious imagination.
