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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grapard, Allan G., author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Shinto studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shugen (Sect)--Japan--Kyūshū Region.

Shugen (Sect).

Sacred space--Japan--Kyūshū Region.

Sacred space.

Kyūshū Region (Japan)--Religious life and customs.

Kyūshū Region (Japan).

Japan--Kyūshū Region.

Physical Description:

xvii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Illustrations

Preface

Organization of the Book

Acknowledgements

A Note on Translation and Text1. 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 Hiko2. 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 Dojo

Mandala templates: divine planning

Geotyped and chronotyped, encoded, mandalized bodies

The visionary imperative3. Festivities and Processions: Spatialities of Power

Mount Hiko as a socio-ritualized space

Mount Hiko's conflicts with Mount Homan and the Shogo-in monzeki

Mount Hiko's ritual calendar

The New Year's shusho tsuina rite: expel and invite

The shusho goo rite: paper, pill, oath

The kissho shugi rite: sanctioning power and rank

Mountain sanctuaries awash in seawater: the shioitori rite

For the birds: the Zokei goku rite

The Matsue and Ondasai ritual festivities

Mineiri: the mandalized peregrinations

Mandalized itineraries

Practices in the mountains

The Daigyoji shrines and water

Usa Hachiman's oracular spatialities

Kunisaki: a much-disturbed heterotopia

The geognostic realm of the lotus in Kunisaki

Coursing through the peninsula4. Shattered Bodies, Statues, and the Appeal of Truncated Memory

Mount Hiko's quasi-destruction and fall into irrelevance

Kunisaki: one breath away from the void of modernity

Hachiman's return in disguise

Afterword: From Spatialities to Dislocation

Rays of lightGlossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474249003

1474249000

OCLC:

931226935

Online:

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