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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan - The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (Paperback)
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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan - The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
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Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and
diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan,
1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the
mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of
this process, he shows how and why this god came to be ignored in
State Shinto in the modern period. In doing so, Zhong moves away
from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something
completely internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates
the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context
involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian
region and the role of western colonial expansion. The Origin of
Modern Shinto in Japan draws extensively on primary source
materials in Japan, many of which were only made available to the
public less than a decade ago and have not yet been studied. Source
materials analysed include shrine records and object materials,
contemporary written texts, official materials from the national
and provincial levels, and a broad range of visual sources based on
contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and material culture.
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