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Title

Mountain Mandalas : Shugendō in Kyushu / Allan G. Grapard.

Author

Grapard, Allan G.

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
• ©2016

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Description

xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, and the Kunisaki Peninsula. Grapard draws from a rich range of theorists from the disciplines of geography, history, anthropology, sociology, and humanistic geography and situates the historical terrain of his research within a much larger context. This book includes detailed analyses of the geography of sacred sites, translations from many original texts, and discussions on rituals and social practices. Grapard studies Mount Hiko and the Kunisaki Peninsula, which was very influential in Japanese cultural and religious history throughout the ages. We are introduced to important information on archaic social structures and their religious traditions; the development of the cult to the deity Hachiman; a history of the interactions between Buddhism and local cults in Japan; a history of the Shugendo tradition of mountain religious ascetics, and much more. Mountain Mandalas sheds light on important aspects of Japan's religion and culture, and will be of interest to all scholars of Shinto and Japanese religion. Extensive translations of source material can be found on the book's webpage, along with illustrations and maps"--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury Shinto studies

Subjects

• Kyūshū Region (Japan) > Religious life and customs
• Shugen (Sect) > Japan > Kyūshū Region
• Sacred space > Japan > Kyūshū Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Illustrations -- Preface -- Organization of the book -- Acknowledgements -- Note on translation and text -- 1. Shugendo and the production of social space -- Kyushu Island : an ignored world -- The Hachiman cult's nebulous origins -- Usa : from prehistoric village to cultic city.
• Oracular pronouncements as divine directives -- The early Heian period : Iwashimizu Hachiman -- The Kunisaki Peninsula's links to Usa -- Mount Hiko -- 2. Geotyped and chronotyped social spaces -- Hachiman's traveling icons -- Mount Hiko : of swords, meteors, dragons, and goshawks -- Waiting for dawn on Mount Hiko : the geotype and chronotype of heterotopia -- Mount Hiko's sacred perimeter : four corners and three dimensions.
• Altitude and altered states of mind : creating a Dōjō -- Mandala templates : divine planning -- Geotyped and chronotyped, encoded, mandalized bodies -- The visionary imperative -- 3. Festivities and processions : spatialities of power -- Mount Hiko as a socio-ritualized space -- Mount Hiko's conflicts with Mount Hōman and the Shōgo-in monzeki -- Mount Hiko's ritual calendar -- The New Year's shushō tsuina rite : expel and invite.
• The shushō goō rite : paper, pill, oath -- The kissho shūgi rite : sanctioning power and rank -- Mountain sanctuaries awash in seawater : the shioitori rite -- For the birds : the Zōkei gokū rite -- The Matsue and Ondasai ritual festivities -- Mineiri : the mandalized peregrinations -- Mandalized itineraries -- Practices in the mountains -- The Daigyōji shrines and water.
• Usa Hachiman's oracular spatialities -- Kunisaki : a much-disturbed heterotopia -- The geognostic realm of the lotus in Kunisaki -- Coursing through the peninsula -- 4. Shattered bodies, statues, and the entreaties of truncated memory -- Mount Hiko's quasi-destruction and fall into irrelevance -- Kunisaki : one breath away from the void of modernity -- Usa : Hachiman's return in disguise -- Afterword : from spatialities to dislocation.
• Rays of light -- Japanese Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 16-5740

ISBN

• 9781474249003
• 1474249000
• 9781474249027 (canceled/invalid)
• 1474249027 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474249010 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015047101

OCLC

931226935

Author

Grapard, Allan G., author.

Title

Mountain Mandalas : Shugendō in Kyushu / Allan G. Grapard.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury Shinto studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 16-5740