| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 235 |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 235.
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| Contents |
Situating Kumano -- The place and path of Kumano pilgrimage -- Institutional and economic structures -- Picturing Kumano -- Structure and agenda -- Emplacements -- The land of origins -- Sites of asceticism -- Translocated genealogies -- Multiple paradises -- Esoteric cartographies -- Institutional portraits -- Mortuary practices -- Suicide and salvation -- Funereal pilgrimage -- Return passage -- Memorial rites -- The theater of state -- The political landscape -- Imperial progress and Institutional growth -- Religious politics and Buddhist Kingship paradises future and past -- A woman's place -- Gender and the ambiguities of enlightenment -- Female trouble -- Exclusion and transgression -- Buddhist matriarchies -- A second genesis -- A hell of one's own |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan)
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Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan)
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Kumano Hongūsha (Natori-shi, Japan)
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Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan) |
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Kumano Hongūsha (Natori-shi, Japan) |
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Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
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Religion
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Kumano Region (Japan) -- Religion
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Japan -- Kumano Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684173990 |
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168417399X |
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