Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan 9780824880439

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 :
Title Page
Copyright
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
Bibliography
Index
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