Assembling Shinto: Buddhist approaches to kami worship in medieval Japan
Part I. Mt. Miwa and the Yamato landscape : The ancient cultic site -- The sacred mountain -- From Izumo to Yamato -- Of snakes and women -- The Omiwa family and the early Yamato rulers -- Miwa as a cultural and economic centre -- The Omiwa shrine and its festivals -- The Omiwa jinguji -- Within the...
| Published in: | Harvard East Asian monographs |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
2017
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Harvard East Asian monographs (396)
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| Series/Journal: | Harvard East Asian monographs
396 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Miwa-Shintō
/ Syncretism
/ Buddhism
/ Geschichte Anfänge-1868
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| Further subjects: | B
Gods, Shinto
History To 1500
B Buddhism Relations Shinto B Shinto History To 1868 B Shinto Relations Buddhism B Miwa Mountain Region (Japan) Religious life and customs History To 1500 |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Part I. Mt. Miwa and the Yamato landscape : The ancient cultic site -- The sacred mountain -- From Izumo to Yamato -- Of snakes and women -- The Omiwa family and the early Yamato rulers -- Miwa as a cultural and economic centre -- The Omiwa shrine and its festivals -- The Omiwa jinguji -- Within the imperial system -- Temple networks in southern Yamato -- In the shadow of Kofukuji -- Control of the land -- At the crossroads of pilgrimage circuits -- Hasedera -- Kofukuji monks and Mt. Muro -- Esoteric Buddhism at Muro -- Tonomine and Yoshino-Kinpusen -- Part II. Holy men and Buddhist monks at Miwa : Miwa Bessho -- Holy men of Miwa in the medieval sources -- Roaming around Muro, Kinpusen, and Tonomine -- Kakuban's formula -- Miwa Bessho, Byodoji -- "Country bumpkins" in search of enlightenment -- Saidaiji -- Saidaiji and Eizon -- Saidaiji monks at Miwa -- Esoteric cults and the Saidaiji network: the case of Aizen Myoo -- From Ise to Miwa and beyond -- The Mongol invasions -- Saidaiji order in Ise -- Miwa daimyojin engi -- The authorship of the engi -- Protecting the ancient deities -- Constructing the new sacred geographies -- Part III. Assembling Shinto : Enlightenment for the "country bumpkins" -- Serpent deities and the Buddhist imagination -- Amaterasu as a serpent -- Aizen and medieval "country bumpkins" -- Absorbing the power of kami -- Miwa-ryu Shinto -- Late medieval developments -- Divine regalia and the symbolic rulership -- "Kami abhi?eka, Miwa-style" at Daigorinji -- The kami iconography at Daigorinji -- The divine regalia in the Miwa-ryu rituals -- Edo-period revival of Miwa-ryu Shinto During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this book serves as a case study of the key stages of "assemblage" through which this formative process took shape. Previously unknown rituals, texts, and icons featuring kami, all of which were invented in medieval Japan under the strong influence of esoteric Buddhism, are evaluated using evidence from local and translocal ritual and pilgrimage networks, changing land ownership patterns, and a range of religious ideas and practices. These stages illuminate the medieval pedigree of Ry?bu Shint? (kami ritual worship based loosely on esoteric Buddhism?s Two Mandalas), a major precursor to modern Shinto. 00In analyzing the key mechanisms for "assembling" medieval forms of kami worship, Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century master narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why groups of religious practitioners affiliated with different cultic sites and religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism?s teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0674970578 |