Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan 0824887883, 9780824887889

Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence i

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Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan
0824887883, 9780824887889

Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence i

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The first comprehensive English-language study of the evolving religious and aesthetic symbolism of the world's mos

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This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the gro

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Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akin

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Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During

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This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have neve

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