Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan by Barbara Ambros

Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan

Harvard East Asian Monographs (Hardcover)

Barbara Ambros

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Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain Ōyama (literally, "Big Mountain") has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.By the Edo period (1600-1868), the revered peak had undergone a transformation from secluded s...

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