Part I. The first encounter: the Sekiten from the eighth to the sixteenth century: Chinese origins: canonical Confucian rites and the Da Tang Kaiyuan li -- A foreign spirit in Japan: Fujiwara promotion, Kibi no Makibi, and the Kanmu Emperor -- The ninth century: oligarchy, ambivalence, and cultural display -- Two literati and the court's iconic ceremony: Sugawara no Michizane, Miyoshi Kiyoyuki, and the Engishiki -- The long decline: traditionalism, etiolation, and the conflagration of 1177 -- The court ceremony's afterlife: mere ritual and its legacy -- Part II. The second encounter, first phase, 1598-1771: The challenge of revival: Post-Tang liturgy in Late Feudal Japan -- Confucian spectacle in Edo: Hayashi Razan and cultural display -- The rehearsal of a foreign rite: Zhu Shunshui and Tokugawa Mitsukuni -- The shogun's solo dance: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi -- Puppetry, derogation, and decline: Arai Hakuseki and Tokugawa Yoshimune -- Part III. The second encounter, second phase, Imperial sacrifice, the reform of 1800, and decline: New perspectives: nativism, Confucian controversy, and the palace and warrior cults -- Emperor and uncrowned king: the palace rite, the Kokaku Emperor, and the Gakushuin -- Back to the past: Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Engishiki revival -- The liturgists' discontents: Inuzuka Innan and Ogori Shinsai -- The shogun's rite: adapting to a warriors' world -- Traditionalism and etiolation: mere ritual again -- Part IV. The final drama, Confucius displaced: Pluralism: provincial Sekiten, martial cults, Shinto, and Mito syncretism -- Confucius impugned: the Hirata Shinto canonical and Hasegawa Akimichi -- Denouement in Meiji: Iwakura Tomomi and the triumph of Shinto -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Sekiten in Modern Japan.
Summary:
"Provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten. Traces the evolution of the sekiten in Japan from pre-modern times up to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
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