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A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto - Edo-Period Writings on Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, and Customs
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A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto - Edo-Period Writings on Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, and Customs
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Before the twentieth century, Japanese religious and cultural life
was shaped by a variety of yearly ceremonies, festivals, and
customs. These annual events (nenju gyoji) included Shinto
festivals in which participants danced through the night to
boisterous music and Buddhist temple practices that honored
deities, great priests, or temple founders with solemn rituals and
prayers—and sometimes, when the Buddha was invoked, raucous
dancing. Temples also hosted popular fairs, where holy objects and
artwork were displayed to the faithful and curious. Countless other
celebrations were held annually at the residences of the nobility
and military elite and at commoner domiciles. Kyoto, the
imperial—and cultural—capital since the eighth century, was the
center of many of these events. From Kyoto festivals, rituals, and
celebrations diffused to other parts of the land, ultimately
shaping religious, artistic, and everyday life as a whole. By the
seventeenth century the Kyoto public wished to inform itself more
accurately about nenju gyoji and their dates and meanings. As a
result, a growing number of guidebooks and almanacs were written
and published for the urban populace. This volume is the first to
present translations of two such publications. Introductory
chapters explain Japanese conceptions of time and space within
which annual celebrations took place and outline how ceremonies and
festivals in and about Kyoto were chronicled, described, and
interpreted from the earliest times to the seventeenth century. The
final two chapters offer annotated translations of writings from
the seventeenth century that catalogue and describe the dates,
sites, meanings, and histories of many Kyoto annual events. The two
works, one largely historical, the other more ethnographic in
nature, indicate not only when and where observances and
commemorations took place, but also how their authors understood
the significance of each. Both translations feature a large number
of illustrations depicting events as they appeared in Kyoto at the
time.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Gerald Groemer
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
380 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9298-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9298-4 |
Barcode: |
9780824892982 |
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