Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
(Book #235 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Although located far from the populated centres of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional centre, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals - about death, salvation, gender, and authority - were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674013956
ISBN13:9780674013957
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:297 Pages
Weight:4.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.7" x 9.3"
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