Agents of World Renewal : : The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan / / Takashi Miura.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Miura, Takashi,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations

This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), a number of entities, both natural and supernatural, came to be worshipped as "gods of world renewal." These i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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