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