Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan 9780824880422
This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi). In th
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Yonaoshi God: The Apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784
Chapter 2. The Rush Hour of Yonaoshi Gods: Late Tokugawa Peasant Uprisings and the Logic of World Renewal
Chapter 3. Tokugawa Bureaucrats Deified as Yonaoshi Gods: Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara
Chapter 4. Upholding a Catfish as a Yonaoshi God: The Earthquake Catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake
Chapter 5. Yonaoshi Gods Falling from the Sky: Rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a Communal Religious Celebration
Chapter 6. An Illusion of a Yonaoshi God: The Chichibu Incident of 1884
Chapter 7. A Universal Yonaoshi God from the Northeast: Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto’s Hinagata Millenarianism
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Yonaoshi God: The Apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784
Chapter 2. The Rush Hour of Yonaoshi Gods: Late Tokugawa Peasant Uprisings and the Logic of World Renewal
Chapter 3. Tokugawa Bureaucrats Deified as Yonaoshi Gods: Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara
Chapter 4. Upholding a Catfish as a Yonaoshi God: The Earthquake Catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake
Chapter 5. Yonaoshi Gods Falling from the Sky: Rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a Communal Religious Celebration
Chapter 6. An Illusion of a Yonaoshi God: The Chichibu Incident of 1884
Chapter 7. A Universal Yonaoshi God from the Northeast: Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto’s Hinagata Millenarianism
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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- Takashi Miura
