Localized Religious Specialists in Early Modern Japan: The Development of the Ōyama Oshi System
This paper discusses the emergence of oshi, lay religious specialists who contributed to the spread of regional pilgrimage cults in the Tokugawa period, by focusing on the example of Ōyama, Sagami Province. Over the course of the seventeenth century, Ōyama's oshi developed gradually as successo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[2001]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2001, Volume: 28, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 329-372 |
Further subjects: | B
Shrine Shinto
B Buddhism B Religious Studies B Pilgrimages B Priests B Religious rituals B Religious places B Temples |
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