Mount Fuji : icon of Japan / H. Byron Earhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earhart, H. Byron, author.

Series:

Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)

Studies in Comparative Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountain worship--Japan--Fuji, Mount.

Mountain worship.

Fuji, Mount (Japan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A survey of the symbolism--religious, aesthetic, and cultural--of Japan's Mount Fuji."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Preface: Invitation to Fuji; A Note on Japanese Names and Terms and on Citations; Part 1 The Power and Beauty of a Mountain; 1 The Power of the Volcano: Fire and Water; The Story of a Mountain: Natural and Cultural; From Volcano to Sacred Mountain; 2 The Beauty of the Ideal Mountain: Early Poetry and Painting; Fuji in Early Writing; Fuji in Classical Painting; 3 Asceticism: Opening the Mountain; Fuji Pioneers: En no Gyoja and Matsudai Shonin; Shugendo: Fuji as an Ascetic Otherworld

Part 2 The Dynamics of a Cosmic Mountain4 The Mountain Becomes the World; Kakugyo: Rebirth from Fuji; Minuki: Fuji as a Mountain Mandala; 5 Touchstone of Ethical Life; Jikigyo Miroku: From Oil Merchant to Religious Reformer; Fasting to Death on Fuji and Transformation of Society; 6 Cosmic Model and World Renewal; Fujido: Fuji as a Cosmic Mountain; Furikawari: The ""Way of Fuji"" as the Revolution of Society; Colour Plate; 7 Pilgrimage Confraternities: People Come to the Mountain; The ""Eight Hundred and Eight"" Fujiko; Fujiko: Pilgrimage to the Mountain

8 Miniature Fuji: The Mountain Comes to the PeopleFujiko: Enshrining the Mountain; Fujizuka: Creating Miniature Fuji; Part 3 Fuji as Visual Ideal and Political Idea; 9 Woodblock Prints and Popular Arts; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japan; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Hiroshige and Hokusai; Fuji as Decoration and Souvenir; 10 Western ""Discovery"" of Woodblock Prints; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japonisme; ""Japonaiserie Forever""; Japanese ""Rediscovery"" of Woodblock Prints; 11 The Enduring Image of Fuji in Modern Times

Giving Form to Japan's Identity: Fuji and the Ideology of NationalismFraming Japan's Identity: Money and Postage Stamps; Part 4 Fuji Devotion in Contemporary Japan; 12 A Contemporary Fujiko; The Decline of Fujiko in Modern Times; Miyamotoko: Edo Customs in Tokyo; 13 New Religions and Fuji; Maruyamakyo: The Crater of Fuji as a Mecca; Gedatsukai: Old Traditions in a New Religion; 14 Surveying Contemporary Fuji Belief and Practice; Statistics and Personal Statements on Fuji Spirituality; Three Views of Fuji; Part 5 Fuji the Flexible Symbol; 15 War and Peace; The Mobilization of Fuji

Fuji as the Emblem of Peace16 The Future of an Icon; Stereotype and Commercial Logo, Erotica and Exotica; Secular Image and Patriotic Mantra; Epilogue: Descent from the Mountain; Appendix: Sino-Japanese Characters; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611171112

1611171113

OCLC:

911034256