A social history of the Ise Shrines : divine capital
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A social history of the Ise Shrines : divine capital
(Bloomsbury Shinto studies)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-282) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Ise shrine complex is among Japan's most enduring national symbols, and A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital is the first book to trace the history of the shrines from their beginnings in the seventh century until the present day. Ise enshrines the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the imperial ancestress and the most prominent among kami deities, and has played a vital role in Japan's social, political and religious history. The most popular pilgrims' attraction in the land from the sixteenth century onwards, in 2013 the Ise complex once again captured the nation's attention as it underwent its periodic rebuilding, performed once every twenty years.
Mark Teeuwen and John Breen demonstrate that the Ise Shrines underwent drastic re-inventions as a result of on-going contestation between different groups of people in different historical periods. They focus on the agents responsible for these re-inventions, the nature of the economic, political and ideological measures they took, and the specific techniques they deployed to ensure that Ise survived one crisis after another in the course of its long history.
This book questions major assumptions about Ise, notably the idea that Ise has always been defined by its imperial connections, and that it has always been a site of Shinto. Written by leading authorities in the field of Shinto studies, this is the essential history of Japan's most significant sacred site.
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Prologue
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Divine capital: Ise and its agents
Chapter 1. Divine wrath and court politics
Chapter 2. Classical Ise: Hosophobia codified
Chapter 3. Amaterasu's escape from Ise
Chapter 4. Ise in the Kamakura period: Lands and secrets
Chapter 5. Ise in the Muromachi period: War and pilgrims
Chapter 6. Ise restored and Shintoised
Chapter 7. Pilgrims' pleasures: Ise and its patrons in the Edo period
Chapter 8. Meiji Ise: The emperor's mausoleum and the modern pilgrim
Chapter 9. Ise and nation in Taisho and early Showa Japan
Chapter 10. Crisis and recovery: Ise's postwar transformations
Conclusion: Phases of redevelopment
Notes
References
Index
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