The Oracles of the Three Shrines

Windows on Japanese Religion

Brian Bocking (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7007-1384-4 (ISBN)

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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.

This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities 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.

Authored by Bocking, Brian

Chapter 1 The sanja takusen and the problem of ‘Shinto’; Chapter 2 What is the sanja takusen?; Chapter 3 How did the oracles surface? The origins of the sanja takusen; Chapter 4 A brief summary of the Oracles of the Three Shrines (Sanja takusen ryakush?); Chapter 5 The spread of the sanja takusen; Chapter 6 When do the oracles change? The sanja takusen after the Meiji restoration;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.1.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7007-1384-0 / 0700713840
ISBN-13	978-0-7007-1384-4 / 9780700713844
Zustand	Neuware