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When tengu talk : Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the other world / Wilburn Hansen.
LIBRA B5244.H474 H36 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Wilburn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hirata, Atsutane, 1776-1843.
- Hirata, Atsutane.
- Hirata, Atsutane, 1776-1843. Senkyō hibun.
- Mediums.
- Japan--Religion.
- Japan.
- Religion.
- Takayama, Torakichi, 1806-.
- Takayama, Torakichi.
- Mediums--Japan.
- Kokugaku.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: A new medium for an old message
- Constructing Japanese identity: Senkyō ibun
- The medium finds a promoter: Torakichi and Atsutane
- Manipulating the medium: separating the sanjin from the tengu
- The critique of China and defense of native culture
- The critique of Buddhism and defense of native religion
- The critique of the west and defense of native knowledge and ability
- Conclusion: The medium is the message.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824832094
- 0824832094
- OCLC:
- 226389367
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