Real and imagined : the Peak of Gold in Heian Japan / Heather Blair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blair, Heather Elizabeth.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 376.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

History.

Kings and rulers.

Sacred space.

Landscapes.

Mountains.

Kinpu, Mount (Nara-ken, Japan)--History.

Kinpu, Mount (Nara-ken, Japan).

Mountains--Japan--Religious aspects--History--To 1500.

Landscapes--Japan--Religious aspects--History--To 1500.

Sacred space--Japan--History--To 1500.

Japan--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Japan.

Fujiwara family.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Japan--History--To 1500.

Japan--History--Heian period, 794-1185.

Japan--Politics and government--794-1185.

Politics and government.

Japan--Religious life and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2015]

Summary:

"During the Heian period, the sacred mountain Kinpusen came to prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan--the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. This book depicts their trek from the capital to the rocky summit, as well as the imaginative landscape they navigated, and sheds new light on Kinpusen, positioning it within the broader religious and political history of the Heian period"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Part I. The mountain imagined

Affective landscape

The local pantheon

Ritual regimes

Part II. The real peak

The trail

Offerings and interments

Personnel and politics

Part III. Changing landscapes

The fall of the Peak of Gold

Engi and interchange

Epilogue: The rise of Shugendo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780674504271

0674504275

OCLC:

893668791