| title | authors | external_url | source_url | drive_links | course | tags | year | month | journal | volume | number | pages | publisher | openalexid | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Ideology of Landscape and the Theater of State: Insei Pilgrimage to Kumano (1090–1220) |
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medieval |
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1997 |
nov |
jjrs |
24 |
3 |
347--374 |
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
W2319244456 |
The Kumano shrines were among the most popular pilgrimage sites of medieval Japan, drawing devotees across geographic, sectarian, class, and gender barriers. Yet this pilgrimage, which is often seen as a paradigmatic and formative example of Japanese popular religion, was instituted by the country's ruling elite as an elaborate ritual of state.