Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by Nam-linHur (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $45.62

  This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. The book provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion.