The oracles of the three shrines : windows on Japanese religion

Author(s)

• Bocking, Brian

Bibliographic Information

The oracles of the three shrines : windows on Japanese religion

Brian Bocking

Curzon Press, 2001

Note

Bibliography: p. 133-137

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 The sanja takusen and the problem of 'Shinto'
• Chapter 2 What is the sanja takusen?
• Chapter 3 How did the oracles surface? The origins of the sanja takusen
• Chapter 4 A brief summary of the Oracles of the Three Shrines (Sanja takusen ryakush?)
• Chapter 5 The spread of the sanja takusen
• Chapter 6 When do the oracles change? The sanja takusen after the Meiji restoration

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA51695548
• ISBN:
  • 0700713840
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Richmond, Surrey
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 142 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 173.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shito shrines -- Japan
  • LCSH : Japan -- Religion