Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki, changed in meaning and …
During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day …
Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain Oyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.By the Edo period …
