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The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history.
Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea and the sacred in relation to history, culture, politics, geography, worldviews and cosmology, space and borders, and ritual practices and doctrines. Examples include Japanese indigenous conceptualizations of the sea from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; ancient sea myths and rituals; sea deities and sea cults; the role of the sea in Buddhist cosmology; and the international dimension of Japanese Buddhism and its maritime imaginary.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes for the Reader
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
General Introduction: The Sea in the History of Japanese Religions, Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Foreword: Cults and Culture of the Sea: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, Allan G. Grapard (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Part One: Ancient Sea Myths and Rituals and Their Reinterpretations
1. Imperial Sea Magic? The Sea Kami and the Great Tasting (daijosai) at the Early Yamato Court, Mark Teeuwen (Oslo University, Norway)
2. The Sea and Food Offerings for the Kami (shinsen), Sato Masato (University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
3. Taming the Plague Demons: Border Islanders and the Ritual Defense of Japan, Jane Alaszewska (SOAS, UK)
4. Island of Many Names, Island of No Name: Taboo and the Mysteries of Okinoshima, Lindsey E. DeWitt (Kyushu University, Japan)
Part Two: Sea Deities and Sea Cults
5. Musical Instruments for the Sea-God Ebisu: The Mythological System of Miho Shrine and Its Performative Power, Ouchi Fumi (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Japan)
6. An Empress at Sea: Sea Deities and Divine Union in the Legends of Empress Jingu, Emily B. Simpson (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
7. Frogs Looking Beyond a Pond: Shinra Myojin in the "East Asian Mediterranean" Network, Sujung Kim (DePauw University, USA)
8. Hachiman Worship Among Japanese Pirates (wako) of the Medieval Period: A Preliminary Survey, Bernhard Scheid (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
9. Shugendo and the Sea, Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS, UK)
Part Three: Buddhism and Japan in the Global Ocean
10. Buddhas from Across the Sea: The Transmission of Buddhism in Ancient and Medieval Temple Narratives (engi), Abe Yasuro (Nagoya University, Japan)
11. Lands and People Drifting Ashore: Distorted Conceptions of Japan's Place in the World According to Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Myths, Ito Satoshi (Ibaraki University, Japan)
12. Buddhist Japan and the Global Ocean, D. Max Moerman (Columbia University, USA)
Part Four: Interpretive Constructs
13. The World Was Born from the Sea: Reading the Origin of Heaven and Earth in the Ruiju jingi hongen, Kanazawa Hideyuki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
14. Origuchi Shinobu and the Sea as Religious Topos: Marebito and Musubi no kami, Saito Hideki (Bukkyo University, Japan)
15. Sea Theologies: Elements for a Conceptualization of Maritime Religiosity in Japan, Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
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