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Sarah Thal

Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods

The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912

344 pages, 33 halftones, 4 line drawings, 5 maps  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute

Cloth $56.00

ISBN: 9780226794204   Published February 2005

Paper $22.50

ISBN: 9780226794211   Published February 2005

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
A Note on Pronunciations, Names, and Dates
Introduction / 1
1 Konpira: Site of the Gods
2 Of Gods and Rulers (to 1587)
3 Konpira, Kongobo, and the Establishment of the Tokugawa Order (1600-1675)
4 God of the Market (1688-1760)
5 Culture of the Gods (1744-1867)
6 From Konpira to Kotohira (1868-1869)
7 For the State and Its Teaching (1871-1874)
8 The Reverence Association (1874-1882)
9 A Shrine without Religion (1882-1892)
10 The Crucible of War (1894-1895)
11 Public Good, Private Gain (1895-1898)
12 Remobilizing the God (1898-1905)
13 The Many Faces of Kotohira (1908-1912)
Epilogue
Appendix: Head Priests of Konkoin and Kotohira Shrine
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary and Selected Biographical Dictionary
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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