RT Article
T1 Paper Fowl and Wooden Fish: The Separation of Kami and Buddha Worship in Haguro Shugendō, 1869-1875
JF Japanese journal of religious studies
VO 32
IS 2
SP 197
OP 234
A1 Sekimori, Gaynor
LA English
PB Nanzan Institute
YR 2005
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1703158903
AB In 1868 the Meiji government enacted a series of laws, often called the "Separation Orders," which was to raise "Shinto" to the status of a state cult to embody the ideals of the new order. This Shinto did not reflect even the practices of local communities, let alone the contemporary religious matrix of kami-buddha combination. Thus it was necessary to "clarify" what was and was not Shinto. Shugendō shrine-temple complexes in particular were targeted for reform, since Shugendō was predicated on kami-buddha combination. This paper looks at how the "Separation Orders" affected the Shugendo of Hagurosan institutionally, ritually, ideologically, and socially. Using insights gained from recent "revisionist" scholarship concerning the English Reformation(s), it examines how change that was not demanded or welcomed locally was able to occur. An important source for evidence is the unpublished Diary of the first head of the reconstructed shrine, Nishikawa Sugao.
K1 Buddhism
K1 Priests
K1 Religious places
K1 Religious rituals
K1 Religious Studies
K1 Shrine Shinto
K1 Talismans
K1 Temples