Real and Imagined : The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan /
"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 n...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


