Author
Brian Bocking
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published
January 2001
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Product Description
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines' (Japanese sanja takusen), the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities, Amaterasu, Kasuga and Hachiman and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice. This is a pioneering study of a visual religious image which, though virtually unknown in the west, has occupied a key role in the transmission of both elite and popular religion in Japan. Approaching Japanese religious history through one of its central iconographic motifs helps overcome the false dichotomy between 'Buddhism' and 'Shinto' and allows us to see how an ostensibly 'Shinto' religious image links variously with Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and popular religions in areas such as divine kingship, inner spiritual cultivation, pilgrimage, nationalism, religious education and even commerce.
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Author
Brian Bocking
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published
January 2001
Weight
432g
Page Count
188
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 13 mm
ISBN
9780700713844
ISBN-10
0700713840
Eden Code
4578545
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Author/Creator: Brian Bocking
ISBN: 9780700713844
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Release Date: January 2001
Weight: 432g
Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Eden Code: 4578545
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