Agents of world renewal : the rise of yonaoshi gods in Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miura, Takashi, 1985- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Gods, Japanese. Japan > Religious life and customs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The emergence of a yonaoshi god : the apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784
The rush hour of yonaoshi gods : late Tokugawa peasant uprisings and the logic of world renewal
Tokugawa bureaucrats deified as yonaoshi gods : Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara
Upholding a catfish as a yonaoshi god : the earthquake catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake
Yonaoshi gods falling from the sky : rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a communal religious celebration
An illusion of a yonaoshi god : the Chichibu Incident of 1884
A universal yonaoshi god from the northeast : Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto's hinagata millenarianism.