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Index Adolphson, Mikael, 84 Ashikaga, 47, 91, 156 Aizawa Seishisai, 61–5, 110, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, 153 195–6, 226 Ashizu Uzuhiko, 6–7, 217 Aizu, 53–4 Aso¯ Taro¯, 216 Akatamayuri-hime, 142, 144 asuras, 38 Akisato Rito¯, 101–3 avatars, 49, 51, 53, 79, 93 Akita, 171 Amaterasu, 9, 23, 28–30, 32–3, Benzaiten, 163 39, 49–50, 58, 61–3, 110, beppyo¯ jinja, 203 118–19, 129–67, 169, 174–5, Bishamonten, 163 177, 179–80, 184, 186, 191–2, Blacker, Carmen, 173 194–6, 212, 222, 225–6 boiling water dance, see yudate Ama-tsu-hiko, 186 kagura Ama-tsu-Mara, 129 Bonshun, 52–3, 93 Ame-no-Kaguyama, 130, 143 Buddhism, 2, 4, 8, 10–12, 14–15, Ame-no-Koyane, 48, 130, 133 19–22, 36, 38–42, 45, 47, Ame-no-Minakanushi, 28, 49–50, 52–3, 59, 72, 74–81, 64–5, 212 88–91, 94–8, 108, 109–10, Ame-no-Uzume, 130, 133, 135–7, 112, 116–18, 120, 124, 139, 151, 153, 155, 159–61, 141–2, 144–5, 155–6, 190–2, 163, 213 197, 200, 213–14, 220–6 Analects, 27 Buzen, 161, 164–5 Arai Hakuseki,COPYRIGHTED 157, 194 Byo¯do¯in, MATERIAL 152 Arakida family, 58, 65 ara mitama, 67, 113 Canton, 181 Article 20, 170–1, 198, Chichibu Shrine, 220, 240 215–16 Chika-tsu-o¯mi, 70 99781405155151_6_Index.indd781405155151_6_Index.indd 225353 99/25/2009/25/2009 66:51:26:51:26 PPMM children of the corridor, dengaku, 151–3, 160 see ro¯-no-miko devas, 38, 45 China, 20, 27, 29–30, 32, 36–7, dharan. ¯ı, 144, 191 39, 45–6, 59, 62–3, 75, 77, Dharma, 39–40, 46–7, 77–8, 79, 81, 84, 88, 90, 123–4, 88–90, 142, 144, 146, 148, 132–3, 138–9, 141–2, 153, 155, 190, 223, 225 156, 163, 180, 182, 186, 189, Do¯kyo¯, 40, 191 195–7, 216–17 do¯shu, 84 Chinese legends, 132 chinkonsai, 137–9, 150 eho¯-mo¯de, 12 chinsai, 37 eirei, 215, 218 chokusaisha, 203 Eizan Daishi den, 75–6 Cho¯shu¯ , 109 ema, 162 Christianity, 8, 10, 18–19, 116–18, Emperor 200, 216 Akihito, 168–9, 174, 201, 205 Chu¯ kyo¯in, 116 Daigo, 50 Class A war criminals, 216–17 Fushimi, 191–2 Como, Michael, 132 Go-Ichijo¯, 140 Confucianism, 8, 10, 19, 45, Go-Kashiwara, 192–3 49–50, 52, 55, 63, 139, Go-Komatsu, 192 156–7, 194–5, 222–3, 225 Go-Mizunoo, 193 Constitution, 10, 123, 125, 168, Go-Tsuchimikado, 50, 192 170–2, 175, 197–8, 200–1, Higashiyama, 193 215–16 Hirohito, 169, 172–3, 216 Council of Kami Affairs, see Ingyo¯, 185 Jingikan Jinmu, 7, 29, 56, 71, 110–11, 123, 165, 179–80 Daigengu¯ , 47–50 Jito¯, 32–3, 36, 56, 185–6, 189 Daigoji, 147 Kanmu, 75 Daigyo¯ji Shrine, 81 Keitai, 25 Daijo¯kyu¯ , 168 Kinmei, 37 daijo¯sai, ix, 23, 32, 40, 54, 65, Ko¯kaku, 179 137, 149, 151, 168–98, 224, Ko¯mei, 107, 179, 192 226–7 Ko¯sho¯, 201 Daijo¯sai no hongi, 172 Ko¯toku, 26 Daikokuten, 163 Meiji, 9, 11, 109, 123, 178, daimyo¯jin, 53 196, 205 Dainichi, 46, 49, 108, 145–8, Momozono, 56 190–1 Monmu, 185, 189 Da¯kin.¯ı, 191 Nakamikado, 194 Daoism, 52, 138, 222, 235 Ninko¯, 179 254 Index 99781405155151_6_Index.indd781405155151_6_Index.indd 225454 99/25/2009/25/2009 66:51:26:51:26 PPMM O¯ jin, 79 gagaku, 148 Reigen, 56, 193 Gagakuryo¯, 150 Sho¯mu, 190 geden, 80 Sho¯wa, 183–4, 196 Genpin, 154 Sujin, 71, 112 genshi, 111 Taisho¯, 12, 123, 178–9, 182–3, genshi-sai, 200 196 Ghengis Khan, 182 Tenji, 71, 73–4, 186 Gion festival, 81, 151 Tenmu, 32–3, 36, 38, 72, Gion Shrine, 80–2, 92, 99 134–6, 138, 140, 189–90 glorious spirits, see eirei Yu¯ ryaku, 71 Go¯ke shidai, 150 Empress gokoku jinja, 11, 203 Jito¯, 32–3, 36, 56, 185–6, 189 gongen, 51, 79, 233, 250 Sho¯ko¯, 205–6 goryo¯e, 151 Sho¯toku, 40, 191 Goryo¯ Shrine, 55 Teimei, 123 Goryu¯ , 147 Engakuji, 224 Grapard, Allan, 8 Engi shiki, 32–3, 35, 186, 189 Great Office, see o¯mandokoro Enryakuji, 75–6, 78, 83, 85, Great Rite of Feasting, see daijo¯sai 91–6, 98, 100, 105, 107, great state-funded shrine, 124, 220, 224–5 see kanpei taisha environment, 209–10 guilds, see za eta, 106, 121 Guoqing-si, 77 Gyo¯jiki, 97 festivals, see matsuri first shrine, see ichi-no-miya Hachiman, 42, 45, 51, 78, 207–8 Foreign Ministry, 177 Hachio¯ji Shrine, 74, 80, 82, 92, Fujii Muneo, 164 95, 112–13, 208 Fujinami family, 58 hafuri, 35 Fujiwara, 41, 140, 152 Hafuribe, 73–6, 80 Fujiwara-no-Michinaga, Hagiyama, 121, 127 81, 84 Hakami Shrine, 58 Fujiwara-no-Tameaki, 142–4, hana, 154 148 hanzen, 109–11, 213 Fukuba Bisei, 64–5 harae, 37 Fukurokuju, 163 hasshin, 48 furyu¯ , 100, 102 Hasshinden, 48, 50, 55 Fu¯ shi kaden, 153 Hata, 70–1 Fushimi Inari Shrine, 211, hatsu miya mairi, 3 213–14, 219, 233 hatsumo¯de, 3, 12 Futodama, 130, 133 Hayashi Haruhiko, 207–8 Index 255 99781405155151_6_Index.indd781405155151_6_Index.indd 225555 99/25/2009/25/2009 66:51:27:51:27 PPMM Hayashi Razan, 157 Ikinaga-tarachishi, 142, 144 heihaku, 33 Ikutama Shrine, 116 Heike monogatari, 81 Imperial Household Agency, 112, Hie jinja korei saiki, 120 169, 172, 174, 184 Hie sha negi kuden sho¯, 114 Inari, 58–9, 213 Hie Shrine(s), 39, 41, 43, 65, Inbe, 133 67–9, 75, 97, 106, 112, 116, India, 38, 45, 46, 88, 144–5, 155, 134, 145, 154, 178, 224, 227 163 Hie Shrine, Great, see o¯bie Inoue Nobutaka, 19 Hie Shrine, Lesser, see Obie Iron Stupa, 145–6 Hie To¯sho¯gu¯ , 94–5 Ise, 32, 39, 40–2, 50, 61, 91, 122, higan-e, 84 135–6, 138–9, 145, 149 higansho, 84–5 Ise amulets, see jingu¯ taima Higashi Hongu¯ , 123 Ise sangu¯ meisho zue, 101 Hiko Nagisatake Ugaya Fukiaezu, Ise Shrine(s), 9, 13, 22, 40, 44, 48, 49–50 51, 54–5, 57–8, 87, 110, 116, Hirata Atsutane, 61, 63–4, 114, 128, 134, 145, 149, 154, 158, 117, 195–6, 226 179, 192, 200–2, 205, 209, Hirata Shinto, 117 213, 216–17, 220, 222 Hitachi, 25–7 Ishige Naomichi, 197 Hiyoshi Taisha, 22, 66, 125–6, Ishikoridome, 133, 139–40 128, 203, 207, 220 Isonokami Shrine, 138 Hocart, A. M., 175 Isozaki Shrine, 161 Ho¯kokusha Shrine, 52 Iwami, 164 Hokuzansho¯, 149 Iwashimizu Shrine, 220 Home Ministry, 117–18, 122–3 Iwato, 159–61 hongaku, 89 Izanagi, 28, 144 Hongu¯ , 115, 120–1 Izanami, 28, 144 honji, 87, 95 Izumo Shrine, 17, 54, 56, 70, 118, Honshu¯ , 26, 161 159, 222, 224 Ho¯ryu¯ ji, 39 Hoshina Masayuki, 53–4 Jien, 81, 191–2 Hoshino Teruoki, 183–4 jindo¯, 20, 46, 145, 153, 155 Hotei, 163 jingi, 27, 31, 36–7, 41, 45 hozonkin seido, 122 jingi cult, 27–8, 32, 35–8, 38–41, hu¯ m. , 147 45, 51, 139, 222–3, 227 jingido¯, 53–4 Ichijo¯ Kaneteru, 56 Jingikan, 8–10, 32, 34, 36–7, 47–8, ichi-no-miya, 42, 45 51–2, 54, 76, 110, 137, 223 Ikeda Atsuko, 202 jingi myth, 28–31, 34–6 ikigami Konko¯ Daijin, 60 jingi ritual, 31–7, 40, 190 256 Index 99781405155151_6_Index.indd781405155151_6_Index.indd 225656 99/25/2009/25/2009 66:51:27:51:27 PPMM jingiryo¯, 32–4 Kamu-musubi, 28, 212 jingu¯ ji, 39, 42, 45, 76 kanbe, 35 Jingu¯ Ko¯go¯, 166 Kan’eiji, 94 Jingu¯ kyo¯, 17 kanjo¯, 142, 147 jingu¯ taima, 13, 58, 204–5, 214, kanname; kanname-sai, 186, 219 200–1 Jingu¯ Zen’in, 76, 78 kanpei taisha, 213 jinin, 85–7, 90–1 Kanpei Taisha Hie Jinja, 111 Jinjacho¯, 202, 204, 209, 218 kansai, 119 Jinja Honcho¯, 5–7, 13–14, 125–8, Karafuto, 181 199–200, 202–15, 218–20 Karasaki, 73 jinja jo¯moku, 53–4 Kashikone, 113 Jinja shinpo¯, 199, 201–2, 205, Kashiwara, 39 209–10, 218 Kasuga Shrine, 22, 48, 51, 84, Jinshin war, 134, 189 89, 111, 152–3, 162, 207, jisha bugyo¯, 96 220, 224 Jo¯gan shiki, 40, 190 katsura, 73 Juge lineage, 74, 95 Kawate Bunjiro¯, 59, 60, 116, 211 Juge Shigekuni, 108–9, 111–12, Keiran shu¯ yo¯shu¯ , 87, 89–90, 145 114–15 Keisan, 97 Juge Shrine, 112–13 Keishin seikatsu no ko¯ryo¯, 200 ju¯ hachi Shinto¯, 51 kenji, 168 ju¯ yo¯ bunkazai, 127 kenkoku kinen no hi, 200 Ju¯ zenji Shrine, 81–2, 95, 112–13 Keta Taisha, 207 kigen-sai, 200 kabuki, 162 kigensetsu, 4, 111 kado¯, 145, 153, 155 kike, 89, 145 Kagamitsukuri, 133 kinensai, 3, 33–5, 41, 76, Kageyama Haruki, 68–9, 81, 120 111, 200 Kagoshima, 170, 172 Kobori Keiichiro¯, 218 kagura, 23, 81, 84, 97, 148–50, Ko¯fukuji, 84, 152–3, 224 153, 155, 158–64, 164–6, Kogo shu¯ i, 31, 148 203, 225 Koguryo˘, 189 kakebotoke, 80 Koizumi Jun’ichiro¯, 215–16 Kakushin, 98 Kojiki, 20, 28–31, 60–4, 69–71, Kamakura, 41, 46, 91, 140 107, 112, 114, 129–35, 140, kamidana, 204 144–5, 159, 164, 186–8, Kamo River, 70 212–13, 225–6 Kamo Shrine(s), 37, 70–1, 73, 78, Kojiki-den, 60, 107 87, 92, 149–50, 207, 220 Kokinshu¯ , 141–2 Kamo Wake-ikazuchi, 68 kokugaku, 164 Index 257 99781405155151_6_Index.indd781405155151_6_Index.indd 225757 99/25/2009/25/2009 66:51:27:51:27 PPMM Kokugakuin University, 197, 219 Lincoln, Bruce, 131–2, 167 kokuho¯, 127 Lotus sutra, 125 kokutai, 16, 18 Konjin, 59–60 Maha¯vairocana, see Dainichi Konko¯kyo¯, 212 Main Shrine, see Hongu¯ Konohana-no-sakuya-hime, 186 mandalas, 44, 46, 88–9, 106, 142, Konpira Shrine, 22, 57–8 147, 192 Korea, 28–9, 32, 36–8, 70–2, 138, Maro¯do Shrine, 79, 82, 95, 115 166, 181, 189 Matachi, 25, 26, 33 Ko¯shin, 59 Matarajin, 142 Ko¯shu¯ , 79–80, 89, 146 matoko ofusuma, 172 Kotomitachi-no-Ushimaru, 73–4 Matsuda Inari, 111 Kumano Shrine, 22, 44, 158 Matsui Iwane, 216 Kuni Kuniaki, 202 Matsumae Takeshi, 137 kunin, 100, 102–6 Matsunoo Shrine, 55, 70–1, 73, Kuni-no-ayumi, 166 87, 92, 220 Kuni-no-Satsuchi, 113 matsuri, 4, 100 Kuni-no-Tokotachi, 48–9, 61, Matsusaka, 61 78–9, 106–7, 112–14, 212, 222 Mayumi Tsunetada, 173 Kuroda Ryu¯ ji, 84 Meiji Constitution, 176, 182 Kuroda Toshio, 19–20 Meiji Jingu¯ (Meiji Shrine), 7, 11, Kuroiwa Akihito, 205 21, 203, 205–6 Kurose Tsuge, 209 Meiji-sai, 200 Kurozumikyo¯, 212 Meijisetsu, 4 Kurozumi Munetada, 59–60, 116, Meiji Shinto, 7, 222 211 Mibu-no-muraji Maro, 26–7 Kuwata, 194 mi-kagura, 148, 150–1 Kyo¯busho¯, 10, 116–18 mikannagi, 137, 149 kyo¯do¯shoku, 10 miki, 3 kyo¯ha Shinto¯, 17 miko, 3, 149, 152, 158–9, 203 Kyo¯ha Shinto¯ Rengo¯kai, 212 mikoshi, 4, 68, 82–6, 99–102, 105, Kyoto, 22, 41, 47–8, 52, 55–6, 58, 119–22, 124–5, 127, 152, 66, 70, 75, 86–7, 91–6, 99, 162, 214 103, 108, 110, 117,
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    JAPAN Traditions, Onsens, & Hiking the Kumano Kodo April 16 - 26, 2020 adventurewomen 14 mount auburn street, watertown ma 02472 t: (617) 544-9393 t: (800) 804-8686 www.adventurewomen.com 1 JAPAN Traditions, Onsens, & Hiking the Kumano Kodo April 16 - 26, 2020 TRIP HIGHLIGHTS ` Hike from village-to-village along the ancient pilgrimage route of the Kumano Kodo resting at night in traditional inns ` Hike with one of the few female “yamabushi”, or mountain ascetic priests and learn about the preservation of Japan’s regional traditions ` Meet Ama pearl divers, Japanese women who free-dive for pearl oysters ` Experience the etiquette and tradition of a formal Japanese tea ceremony ` Relax in the evening in natural hot spring baths with a soothing glass of wine TRIP ROUTE adventurewomen 14 mount auburn street, watertown ma 02472 t: (617) 544-9393 t: (800) 804-8686 www.adventurewomen.com 2 JAPAN Traditions, Onsens, & Hiking the Kumano Kodo April 16 - 26, 2020 QUICK VIEW ITINERARY Day 1: arrive Kyoto, welcome dinner Day 2: explore Ginkakuji Temple, walk the Philosopher’s Pathway, meet an apprentice Geisha Day 3: experience Todaiji Temple, walk in Nara Park, Japanese tea ceremony Day 4: hike on the Kumano Kodo from Takijiri to Takahara Day 5: hike from Takahara to Chikatsuyu Day 6: hike to Hongu with a female ascetic priest, make traditional washi paper Day 7: visit a tuna market, explore Nachi Taisha Day 8: take the train to Ise, visit the Geku, end the day in the inner shrine of Naiku Day 9: visit the Ama Divers, take the bullet train to Tokyo Day 10: walk in the Hama Rikyu Gardens, visit the Ginza district, explore Grand Meiji Shrine Day 11: depart for the US TRIP PRICE Main Trip: $8,390 Optional Single Accommodations: $1,500 adventurewomen 14 mount auburn street, watertown ma 02472 t: (617) 544-9393 t: (800) 804-8686 www.adventurewomen.com 3 JAPAN Traditions, Onsens, & Hiking the Kumano Kodo April 16 - 26, 2020 your adventure in depth DAY 1 Arrive in Kyoto Thursday Arrive in Osaka today and transfer to Kyoto.
  • State Shinto”

    State Shinto”

    Recent Research on “State Shinto” Okuyama Michiaki 奥山倫明 Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture As a scholarly concept, the concept of State Shinto has been developing, especially after 1945, to refer to the prewar situation surrounding the sup- port and management shrine matters by the state. Academic works are accumulating, both on the concept of State Shinto itself and on the elements that concretely constituted State Shinto. This essay will first summarize the scholarly institutions surrounding the researches related to State Shinto developed in the past fifteen years or so. Then it will try to give an overview of the related sites and facilities of State Shinto, elements that concretely constituted prewar State Shinto. elen Hardacre published Shinto: A History in 2017. In this book she “tries to address the issue of continuity in Shinto history from a new vantage point,” after Kuroda Toshio’s theory on Shinto dismantled “the rhetoric of Shinto as ‘the indigenous religion of HJapan’” in the 1980s (5). Hardacre discusses the subject of modern Shinto in the following five chapters in this book: Chapter 12 entitled “Shinto and the Meiji State”; Chapter 13 “Shinto and Imperial Japan; Chapter 14 “Shinto from 1945 through 1989”; Chapter 15 “Shrine Festivals and Their Changing Place in the Public Sphere”; and Chapter 16 “Heisei Shinto.” These five chapters occupy approximately one-third of the main text of the volume (198 among 552 pages). In this book, “State Shinto” is not a main topic, but nevertheless she pays sig- nificant attention to it. In the introduction that summarizes the contents of each chapter, Hardacre comments on the term “State Shinto” in referring to Chapter 12.
  • Linguistic Cubism — a Singularity of Pluralism in the Sanno Cult 一

    Linguistic Cubism — a Singularity of Pluralism in the Sanno Cult 一

    Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 198714/2-3 Linguistic Cubism — A Singularity of Pluralism in the Sanno Cult 一 A lla n G. G r ap ar d “A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the laws of its composition and the rules of its games•” [Jacques Derrida, Dissemination，p. 65.] Generally described as the center of the Tendai school of Buddhism in Japan, M t. Hiei has also been for much of its history the locus oi interactions be­ tween Buddhist propositions and the cultural discourse issued from Hie Taisha 日吉大社，the Shinto shrines located at its foot.1 Toward the middle of the Heian period these interactions gave birth to a system of Shinto- Buddhist comDinations known as the SannO cultic system, which formed one of the philosophical and ritual cores of Mt. Hiei throughout the medieval pe­ riod, and served as the basis for the deification of the Tokugawa shoguns at Nikko during the Edo period.2 The purpose of the following presentation is to attempt to throw light onto one corner (hitosumi wo terasu — 隅を照らす, as the Tendai saying goes), by postulating that one of the rationales for these combinations was expressed first in linguistic games such as puns and metaphors, and then in graphic puzzles grounded in complex meditational techniques described in several Tendai philosophical texts. I w ill then show how this rationale found what might be its ideal expression in the composition and structure of the Hie 1 Hie Taisha, also sometimes but improperly known as Hiyoshi Taisha, refers to seven major shrines conceived of as three units and located at the eastern foot of Mt.
  • Kaempfer's Album of Famous Sights of Seventeenth Century Japan

    Kaempfer's Album of Famous Sights of Seventeenth Century Japan

    KAEMPFER'S ALBUM OF FAMOUS SIGHTS OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY JAPAN YU-YING BROWN WITHIN the covers of a large and weighty album bound in western style and preserved in The (Western) Manuscript Collections of the British Library (Add. MS. 5252; bearing Sloane's old classification 'Bibliothecae Sloanianae Min. 47') are to be found three groups of curiously varied material. The first consists of a series of fifty Japanese paintings executed in brilhant colours and in gold, each on paper measuring 215 x 322 mm. (ff. 1-50). They depict famous sights of Japan enlivened by vignettes of people engaged in a variety of activities, though mostly pleasure outings or pilgrimages to shrines, temples and scenic spots. The second comprises seven Japanese figure drawings mounted on ff. 53-59, together with three padded applique pictures (ff. 68-70), now identified as oshie (pressed pictures). The third group seems to be entirely Chinese in origin. It consists of twenty-six floral and figure pictures in silk brocade or embroidery (ff. 51, 52, 60-67, i00"i5)- These otherwise unrelated groups of items have one thing in common. They were all smuggled out of Japan in 1692 by the German physician and traveller, Dr Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), and have all, until recently, lain dormant, in pristine condition, among the British Museum's foundation collections.^ This paper seeks to introduce the first and major part of the album only, namely the remarkable set of fifty miniature paintings. These are of unique importance for all historians of Japanese art and culture as well as for specialists in 'Kaempfer studies'.