Mark Teeuwen

Kyoto's Gion Festival (eBook, PDF)

A Social History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan - Kyoto's Gion festival. It explores this history from the festival's origins in the late 10th century to its post-war revival, drawing on Japanese historical studies and archival materials as well as the author's participant observation fieldwork.

Exploring the social and political networks that have kept this festival alive for over a millennium, this book reveals how it has endured multiple reinventions. In particular, it identifies how at each historical juncture, different groups have found new purposes for the festival and adapted this costly enterprise to suit their own ends. The history of this festival not only sheds light on the development of Japanese festival culture as a whole, but also offers a window on Kyoto's history and provides a testing ground for recent festival theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350229945
• Artikelnr.: 67269784

Autorenporträt

Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at Oslo University, Norway. He has published widely on the history of Japanese religious, with a special focus on Shinto. His books include A New History of Shinto (2010), co-authored by John Breen, and Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments(2013), co-edited by Henk Blezer.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Origins and the Festival's First Phase (c. 900
1200) 2. The Medieval Transformation of the Festival (c. 1200
1467) 3. The Revival of the Festival and its Early Modern Consolidation (1500
1871) 4. The Crisis of Modernity: the Festival's Decline and Reinvention (1871
1942) 5. The Post
war Revival and Contemporary Dynamics (1947
today) 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index