| Description |
1 online resource (340 p.) |
| Series |
Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; v.76 |
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Brill's Japanese studies library.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Problem of the Pre-Shinto Cults -- Territorial Cults -- The Focus on Early Japan -- Japan's Protohistory -- Innovations Introduced by the Taika Reform -- Different Versions of the Same Story in Nihon Shoki -- The God Age Mythology -- The Fudoki Mythology -- The Method of Interpretation -- The Theoretical Model -- The Structure of the Book -- Romanisation -- Quoting from Ancient Texts -- Chapter 1 Divination, the Crucial Rite -- Divining with Things Thrown and Falling Down -- Divining the Place for Founding a Shrine |
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Absurd Uses of the Falling Motif -- Realistic Methods Exaggerated -- Land Divination Typically Performed in Front -- Divining with Things Cast Overboard -- Floating a Wisteria Twig to Find the Right Place -- Letting a Cooking Set Float to Enemy Land -- Susanoo and the Floating Chopsticks -- Kisakahime and the Lost Bow and Arrow -- Articles to Play on the Sea -- Floats Used for Divining -- Divining in Boats -- The Religious Use of Wood Drifted Ashore -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Story of Yato no Kami -- The Topography -- The Mountain Entrance -- The Lacking First Part of the Story |
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The Yashiro at the Upper Boundary -- Matachi's Ritual Procedure Reconstructed -- Mibu no Muraji Maro and the Divine Snakes -- Moving a Shrine to Another Site -- The Location of the Ancient Pond -- The New Conditions in the Ritsuryō State -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Making a Large Territory in Harima -- Ame no Hiboko and Iwa no Ōkami -- Ame no Hiboko's Arrival -- The Claiming Ceremony on Iibo Hill -- Other Claiming Stories -- The Iibo Hill and Its Special Relation to the Iwa Jinja -- Hardening the Land -- A Model of the Grand-Scale Land-Making Myth? -- The Two Foundations of the Iwa Shrine |
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Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Making and Ceding the Land in the God Age -- The God Age Mythology: An Overview According to Kojiki -- The Land-Making Myth -- Sukunabikona -- Ōnamuchi as a Beginner in Land-Making -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Kojiki -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Nihon Shoki -- Kojiki and Nihon Shoki: Two Different Doctrines -- Consequences of the Land-Ceding Myth -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Ninigi's Descent and His Territory in Kyushu -- The Title Sentence Pattern -- The Two Main Versions of the Myth -- Cape Kasasa as a Place on the Way to Takachiho |
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Ninigi's Arrival at the Coast -- Ninigi Questions the Master of the Land at Cape Kasasa -- Ninigi at Cape Kasasa -- Takama no Hara as a Horizontally Distant Heaven -- Ninigi's Descendants Living in Kyushu -- The Conquest of Yamato -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Foundation of the Izumo Shrine -- Ōkuninushi's Place of Hiding and Waiting -- Prince Homuchiwake Worships the Great God of Izumo -- Ashihara no Shikoo and the Worship at Iwakuma -- Mt. Kannabi and the Sokinoya Shrine -- A Suitable Site at the Foot of Mt. Kannabi -- The Political Aspect -- The Foundation of the Shrine at Kizuki |
| Summary |
The first book that focuses on the founding of territories as a main motif of Japanese mythology and argues for paying more attention to the territorial cults and their basically horizontal world view in general |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Land-Pulling Myth and the Four Kannabi of Izumo |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004686458 |
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9004686452 |
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