Wild actors and wrathful deities: Buddhist faith, entertainment, and the kabuki theatre of early modern Japan

This paper examines the relationship between the celebrated kabuki guild of Ichikawa Danjūrō actors and the popular Narita Fudō deity cult in the capital of Edo in early modern (seventeenth to nineteenth century) Japan. While the actors' worship of the cult and their personifications of the dei...

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Main Author: Bond, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-32
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ichikawa, Danjūro 1660-1704 / Japan / Narita / Theater / Kabuki / Acalanātha / Cult / Buddhism / Edo period
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
TJ Modern history
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