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Die Vorgeschichte der Götter von Kumano : das Nara-ehon "Kumano no honji" aus der Sammlung Voretzsch im Besitz des Museums für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main.
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ISBN: 3447037725 Year: 1997 Volume: 5 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz

Localizing paradise : Kumano pilgrimage and the religious landscape of premodern Japan.
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ISBN: 0674013956 9780674013957 168417399X 9781684173990 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university press

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"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals--about death, salvation, gender, and authority--were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."--Publisher's website.

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