From Deer Bones to Turtle Shells: The State Ritualization of Pyro-Plastromancy during the Nara-Heian Transition

This article reviews received and recovered evidence of divination with bone and fire in early Japan to identify and investigate a shift from deer scapulae to turtle shells that took place during the Nara-Heian transition, particularly within the state cult. It questions why this shift occurred and...

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Main Author: Kory, Stephan N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute [2015]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 339-380
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yoshida, Family / Japan / Fortune-telling / Fire ritual / Bones / Deer / Skull / Turtles / Tanks (Military science) (Zoology) / History 700-930
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
BN Shinto
KBM Asia
TF Early Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Omens
B Heian period
B Diviners
B Family names
B Religious Studies
B Religious rituals
B Shintoism
B Divinity
B Clans
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