Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan : : Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts / / ed. by Or Porath, Fabio Rambelli.
In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals (kanjō) of Buddhist origin. This is the first book to address in a comprehensive way the multiple forms and aspects of these rituals also in relation to other Asian contexts.The multi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Religion and Society ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXIV, 505 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Image Credits
- Notes for the Reader
- List of Contributors
- Chapter One General Introduction: Rituals of Initiation and Consecration (kanjō) in Premodern Japan
- Part One: Origins and Developments on the Asian Mainland
- Chapter Two Reflections on the Royal Unction Waters
- Chapter Three The Origin and Transformations of Abhiṣeka in Indian Buddhism
- Chapter Four Birds of a Feather Bathe Together: Buddhist Consecration Rituals in Medieval China and their Relation to Daoism
- Chapter Five Three Chapters on Consecration from the Oḍiyāna Mahāmudrā Lineage
- Part Two: Imperial Consecration in Japan
- Chapter Six The First Royal Abhiṣeka in Japan: Kūkai’s Esoteric Buddhist Ordination for the Grand Emperor Heizei
- Chapter Seven Literary Secret Agents: Solving the Case of the Sokui Kanjō
- Chapter Eight New Interpretations of Sokui Kanjō in the Modern Period: The Enthronement Ceremonies of Emperors Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa
- Part Three: Religious Developments of the Imperial Consecration
- Chapter Nine The Cultural History of Kanjō in Japan: The Integration of the Sacred and the Profane
- Chapter Ten “Tossing the Flower for the Sake of the Divinities”: Kechien Kanjō and the Medieval Japanese Cosmology
- Chapter Eleven Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Japanese Tendai Kurodani Lineage Consecrated Ordination (Kai Kanjō)
- Chapter Twelve The Abhiṣeka of the Yogin: Bodily Practices and the Interiorization of Ritual in Medieval Japan
- Chapter Thirteen The World of Shintō Kanjō, With a Focus on Ryōbu Shinto
- Chapter Fourteen The Consecration of Acolytes (Chigo Kanjō): Ritualizing Male-Male Sexuality in Medieval Tendai
- Chapter Fifteen Before the Appearance of Shugen Kanjō: Origin and History of a Forged Ritual
- Chapter Sixteen Buchū Kanjō: Secret Dharma Transmission in the Shugendō Mountain-Entry Ritual
- Part Four: Developments in the Arts
- Chapter Seventeen Kokin Kanjō: Rituals and Conceptualizations
- Chapter Eighteen The Consecration to the Art of the Biwa (Biwa Kanjō)
- Chapter Nineteen Shō kanjō: Music Education, Secret Melodies, and Imperial Politics
- Bibliography
- Index