Part I. Mt. Miwa and the Yamato landscape : The ancient cultic site -- The sacred mountain -- From Izumo to Yamato -- Of snakes and women -- The Omiwa family and the early Yamato rulers -- Miwa as a cultural and economic centre -- The Omiwa shrine and its festivals -- The Omiwa jinguji -- Within the imperial system -- Temple networks in southern Yamato -- In the shadow of Kofukuji -- Control of the land -- At the crossroads of pilgrimage circuits -- Hasedera -- Kofukuji monks and Mt. Muro -- Esoteric Buddhism at Muro -- Tonomine and Yoshino-Kinpusen -- Part II. Holy men and Buddhist monks at Miwa : Miwa Bessho -- Holy men of Miwa in the medieval sources -- Roaming around Muro, Kinpusen, and Tonomine -- Kakuban's formula -- Miwa Bessho, Byodoji -- "Country bumpkins" in search of enlightenment -- Saidaiji -- Saidaiji and Eizon -- Saidaiji monks at Miwa -- Esoteric cults and the Saidaiji network: the case of Aizen Myoo -- From Ise to Miwa and beyond -- The Mongol invasions -- Saidaiji order in Ise -- Miwa daimyojin engi -- The authorship of the engi -- Protecting the ancient deities -- Constructing the new sacred geographies -- Part III. Assembling Shinto : Enlightenment for the "country bumpkins" -- Serpent deities and the Buddhist imagination -- Amaterasu as a serpent -- Aizen and medieval "country bumpkins" -- Absorbing the power of kami -- Miwa-ryu Shinto -- Late medieval developments -- Divine regalia and the symbolic rulership -- "Kami abhi?eka, Miwa-style" at Daigorinji -- The kami iconography at Daigorinji -- The divine regalia in the Miwa-ryu rituals -- Edo-period revival of Miwa-ryu Shinto.
Summary:
"During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this serves as a case study of the key stages of "assemblage" through which this formative process took shape."-- Provided by publisher.
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