The worship of Confucius in Japan / James McMullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMullen, James, 1939- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 421.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 421

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism--Japan--Rituals--History.

Confucianism.

Confucianism--Japan--Customs and practices--History.

History.

Japan--Religious life and customs.

Japan.

Confucianism--Customs and practices.

Confucianism--Rituals.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020.

Summary:

"Provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten. Traces the evolution of the sekiten in Japan from pre-modern times up to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. The first encounter: the Sekiten from the eighth to the sixteenth century: Chinese origins: canonical Confucian rites and the Da Tang Kaiyuan li

A foreign spirit in Japan: Fujiwara promotion, Kibi no Makibi, and the Kanmu Emperor

The ninth century: oligarchy, ambivalence, and cultural display

Two literati and the court's iconic ceremony: Sugawara no Michizane, Miyoshi Kiyoyuki, and the Engishiki

The long decline: traditionalism, etiolation, and the conflagration of 1177

The court ceremony's afterlife: mere ritual and its legacy

Part II. The second encounter, first phase, 1598-1771: The challenge of revival: Post-Tang liturgy in Late Feudal Japan

Confucian spectacle in Edo: Hayashi Razan and cultural display

The rehearsal of a foreign rite: Zhu Shunshui and Tokugawa Mitsukuni

The shogun's solo dance: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

Puppetry, derogation, and decline: Arai Hakuseki and Tokugawa Yoshimune

Part III. The second encounter, second phase, Imperial sacrifice, the reform of 1800, and decline: New perspectives: nativism, Confucian controversy, and the palace and warrior cults

Emperor and uncrowned king: the palace rite, the Kokaku Emperor, and the Gakushuin

Back to the past: Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Engishiki revival

The liturgists' discontents: Inuzuka Innan and Ogori Shinsai

The shogun's rite: adapting to a warriors' world

Traditionalism and etiolation: mere ritual again

Part IV. The final drama, Confucius displaced: Pluralism: provincial Sekiten, martial cults, Shinto, and Mito syncretism

Confucius impugned: the Hirata Shinto canonical and Hasegawa Akimichi

Denouement in Meiji: Iwakura Tomomi and the triumph of Shinto

Conclusion

Epilogue: The Sekiten in Modern Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674237261

0674237269

OCLC:

1049574282