Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The yama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan: The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by Barbara Ambros (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $44.25

  Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain oyama has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. This book offers a narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts.