- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Notes for the Reader
- Introduction
- 1 Shinto in the Ancient Period
- 2 The Kami in Myth
- 3 The Coalescence of Early Shinto
- 4 Shinto during the Middle and Late Heian Period, Tenth through Twelfth Centuries
- 5 The Esotericization of Medieval Shinto
- 6 Medieval Shinto and the Arts
- 7 The Late Medieval Period
- 8 Early Edo-Period Shinto Thought and Institutions
- 9 Edo-Period Shrine Life and Shrine Pilgrimage
- 10 Shinto and Revelation
- 11 Shinto and Kokugaku
- 12 Shinto and the Meiji State
- 13 Shinto and Imperial Japan
- 14 Shinto from 1945 through 1989
- 15 Shrine Festivals and Their Changing Place in the Public Sphere
- 16 Heisei Shinto
- Appendix: Shrine Funding
- Selected List of Characters
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
Shinto in the Ancient Period
Shinto in the Ancient Period
- Chapter:
- (p.17) 1 Shinto in the Ancient Period
- Source:
- Shinto
- Author(s):
Helen Hardacre
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses Shinto’s “prehistory,” the mixture of continental influences in its formation and early concepts of sovereignty. Through the court’s adoption of Buddhism, a corpus of Kami ritual understood as “indigenous” was embodied in its own code of law and a branch of government, the Ministry of Divinities (Jingikan), placed in charge of it, giving Kami ritual a “public” status. I argue that these linked institutional developments represent the beginning of Shinto.
Keywords: Continental influence on Shinto, advent of Buddhism, ancient Kami ritual, Jingikan, Kami law, jingiryō
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Notes for the Reader
- Introduction
- 1 Shinto in the Ancient Period
- 2 The Kami in Myth
- 3 The Coalescence of Early Shinto
- 4 Shinto during the Middle and Late Heian Period, Tenth through Twelfth Centuries
- 5 The Esotericization of Medieval Shinto
- 6 Medieval Shinto and the Arts
- 7 The Late Medieval Period
- 8 Early Edo-Period Shinto Thought and Institutions
- 9 Edo-Period Shrine Life and Shrine Pilgrimage
- 10 Shinto and Revelation
- 11 Shinto and Kokugaku
- 12 Shinto and the Meiji State
- 13 Shinto and Imperial Japan
- 14 Shinto from 1945 through 1989
- 15 Shrine Festivals and Their Changing Place in the Public Sphere
- 16 Heisei Shinto
- Appendix: Shrine Funding
- Selected List of Characters
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
