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Agents of World Renewal : the Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan.
This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), a number of entities, both natural and supernatural, came to be worshipped as "gods of world renewal." These i...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Yonaoshi God: The Apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784; Chapter 2. The Rush Hour of Yonaoshi Gods: Late Tokugawa Peasant Uprisings and the Logic of World Renewal; Chapter 3. Tokugawa Bureaucrats Deified as Yonaoshi Gods: Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara; Chapter 4. Upholding a Catfish as a Yonaoshi God: The Earthquake Catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake; Chapter 5. Yonaoshi Gods Falling from the Sky: Rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a Communal Religious Celebration
- Chapter 6. An Illusion of a Yonaoshi God: The Chichibu Incident of 1884Chapter 7. A Universal Yonaoshi God from the Northeast: Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto's Hinagata Millenarianism; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Blank Page