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

Routledge, 2014, c2001

• : pbk.

Note

"First published 2001 by Routledge"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137) and 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

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Details

• NCID: BB29716231
• ISBN:
  • 9781138862494
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 142 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 299.56
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shinto
  • LCSH : Buddhism -- Japan
  • LCSH : Japan -- Religion