A social history of the Ise shrines : divine capital /
Mark Teeuwen
- New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017
- x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25cm
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Prologue; Notes to the Reader; Introduction Divine Capital: Ise and its Agents; The 2013 Rebuilding; Meanings and Agents; The Purpose of This Book; Chapter 1 Ancient Ise: Divine Wrath and Court Politics; Emperor Tenmu and the 'Shrine of Amaterasu'; Ise's Origination Myth; Amaterasu as the Leader of the Heavenly Deities; Why Ise?; Empress Jito and Amaterasu; Summing Up; Chapter 2 Classical Ise: Hosophobia Codified; Buddhism and the Imperial Succession; The Ise of the Protocols. The Inner Shrine's Auxiliary Shrines, Their Kami and Kami SeatsThe Ise Priesthood; Ise Ritual; Ise and Court Ritual; Chapter 3 Amaterasu's Escape From Ise; The Ritsuryo Funding System Unravels; New Strategies in the Struggle for Land; Redefining Ise for a New Era; Kamakura; New Court Interpretations; Esoteric Readings of Ise; Ise's New Agents and their New Clientele; Chapter 4 Ise in the Kamakura Period: Lands and Secrets; The Mongols; Economic Woes; Watarai Yukitada and the Origin; Reinventing the Outer Shrine's Kami; Creating Secrets; Shinto; Ise's Medieval Capital: Secrets and Land Rights. Chapter 5 Ise in the Muromachi Period: War and PilgrimsA New Political Environment; Kitabatake Chikafusa and Ise Thought; Pilgrimage and the Rise of a New Group of Ise Actors; The Development of Yamada; Trade, War and the Yamada Council; The Shrines Go to Ruin; Ise Worship Dispersed; Chapter 6 Ise Restored and Shintoized; A New Order Imposed; The Ise Shrines Restored; A New Hierarchy of Power; Shogunal Ise; Ise's Shintoization; Chapter 7 Pilgrims' Pleasures: Ise and its Patrons in the Edo Period; The Ise Experience; Ise Abroad: Oshi and Their Agents; Popular Imaginings. Bakumatsu Politics: Imperializing IseChapter 8 Meiji Ise: Amaterasu's Mausoleum and the Modern Pilgrim; The Meiji Emperor and the Ise Shrines; Uji, Yamada and the Provinces of Modern Japan; Shin'enkai and Its Legacy; Chapter 9 Ise and Nation in Taisho And Early Showa Japan; The Sun Goddess's Progress, 1929; Popular Participation; Ise Discourse in the 1920s and 1930s; Promoting Ise: The Shrine and Its Publicity; Ujiyamada and the Pilgrims' Return; Ujiyamada in the Early Twentieth Century; Ise at War; Chapter 10 Crisis and Recovery: Ise's Post-War Transformations; 1953: Ise and the Ruins of War
"Traces the history of the Ise shrines from the 7th century until today, focusing on the many episodes of crisis that transformed the social landscape around the shrines"-- Provided by publisher
9781474272797
History of religion Ise Daijingū Religion Religion and sociology Japan Ise-shi History Shintoism