TY - BOOK AU - Mark Teeuwen AU - John Breen TI - A social history of the Ise shrines : : divine capital SN - 9781474272797 U1 - REF 299.5641350952181 T22 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - History of religion KW - Ise Daijingū KW - Religion KW - Religion and sociology Japan Ise-shi History KW - Shintoism N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -