Allan G Grapard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan G Grapard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Grapard |
| SIGNATURE | GRAPARD A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Le lotus déployé sur le mont Hiko
Mount Hiko, north of the southern Japanese island of Kyūshū, is one of the main sacred mountains of Japan, and one of the great places of practice of the yamabushi or shugenja, anchorites practising the “way for obtaining powers” (Shugendō). This mountain has only recently been studied in Japan and the book published by the author on this subject, of which the following essay is a summary, is the first work to appear on this topic in Western lang…
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization …
Japanese Food Offerings
Food offerings are one of the most interesting aspects of Shinto rituals. Some involve an enormous variety of foodstuff and constitute extraordinary examples of food preparation and presentation. Many of these offerings are based on ancient sources and are prepared according to protocols established at the imperial court in the Muromachi period, if not earlier. This article explores some features of Shinto food offerings, with special focus on th…
Medieval Shintō Boundaries: Real or Imaginary
La manière dont le terme shintō est défini a des conséquences profondes pour la détermination du caractère médiéval du shintō. La recherche entreprise sur le sujet indique que le shintō fut, de façon prépondérante, une création bouddhique, soit du fait des auteurs des documents qui nous sont parvenus, soit parce que l'épistémè bouddhique était généralement acceptée et dominait l'horizon intellectuel des époques examinées. L'essai qui suit survole…
Shinto
Of Emperors and Foxy Ladies
Afin de s'établir comme symboles du "centre", les empereurs du Japon n 'ont pu se passer de la « périphérie », qui semble avoir été créée dans ce seul but. Cet article discute quelques moyens qui furent employés à cet égard : la profonde relation entre les empereurs et les courtisanes, l'évolution historique des rites d'intronisation sous l'influence du bouddhisme ésotérique et autres rites, et la non moins profonde relation entre ces rites et le…
Shrines Registered in Ancient Japanese Law: Shinto or Not
The Procedures of the Engl Era (Engl shiki) contain registers of 2 862 shrines to which the imperial government made offerings during the Nara and Heian periods. An analysis of these shrines is conducted on the basis of three working hypotheses. First, the possibility that the location of these shrines may have been of strategic importance in the political and military campaigns of Yamato, Nara, and Heian Japan. Second, the possibility that these…
The Oracles of the Three Shrines: Windows on Japanese Religion
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines' (Japanese sanja takusen), the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities, Amaterasu, Kasuga and Hachiman and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice. This is a pioneering stu…
Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise
Religious practices
This chapter deals with the establishment of religion in Japan during the Heian era with a focus on presence or concurrent establishment of shrines in the immediate vicinity of temples, and about the growth and status of ritual practices in both shrines and temples. The creation of the Twenty-two Shrine-temple system, coupled with the reformulation of ritual procedures, was a momentous event indicative of what came to be the dominant ideology of …
The Cambridge History of Japan
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language. From Heian-kyo, founded in 794, the Japanese emperor ruled over an elaborate government modelled on China's absolute monarchy. Ambassadors to the T'ang court and students studying in China brought back laws, ideas, Buddhism, temple architecture, sculpture, and wall-painting. Chinese influences blended …
Geotyping Sacred Space: The Case of Mount Hiko in Japan
Shugendō, an institutional and ritual system elaborated in Japan over a period of several centuries, evolved as a vehicle to achieve Buddhahood by means of various austerities and ascetic practices that were performed in mountains, with the assistance of complex rituals related mainly to Esoteric Buddhism and sometimes to Taoism, and through diverse cults rendered to combined native and foreign deities.1 These cults were given in what is often re…
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
TWELVE. Geosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of Space
Hōsōgami ou la petite vérole aisément. Matériaux pour l'étude des épidémies dans le Japon des XVIIIe, XIXe siècles ["Hōsōgami" or Smallpox Contracted Easily]
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple complexes, Allan Grapard characterizes what he calls the combinatory character of pre-modern Japanese religiosity. He argues that Shintoism and Buddhi…
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature
The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo
IN the northeastern area of Kyoto is a hill called Kagura-oka, 'Hill of Sacred Dances'. In 859 Fujiwara Yamakage #RLLR$ built a replica of the Kasuga Shrine (the shrine dedicated in Nara to the ancestral and tutelary kami of the Fujiwara house) at the western foot of the hill, and called it Yoshida Shrine; the hill is therefore also known as Mt Yoshida. The history of that hill is little known in spite of its dramatic impact on the world of shrin…
Visions of excess and excesses of vision: Women and transgression in Japanese myth
A persistent problem for historians of Japanese religions has been proper identification and definition of Other World, a realm beyond ordinary experience that is also thought to be abode of kami and, occasionally, of dead as well. Despite fact that Japanese tradition uses several names to refer to that experiential zone, most scholars conceive of it as a single entity and thus contribute to a confusion that has continued unabated to this day. It…
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. This volume has significantly raised the standa…
The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
Rule-governed activity vs. rule-creating activity
Problematic Representations in the Study of Japanese Religions
James Dobbins, Jodo Shinshu, Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 256, $35, ISBN 0-253-33186-2. Byron Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and religion in contemporary Japan Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 300, $57.50, ISBN 0-253-35007-7
Enduring Problems in the Study of Japanese Religions On Understanding Japanese Religion . Joseph M. Kitagawa
Japan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities in Meiji ("Shimbutsu Bunri") and a Case Study: Tōnomine
Flying Mountains and Walkers of Emptiness: Toward a Definition of Sacred Space in Japanese Religions
Lotus in the Mountain, Mountain in the Lotus: Rokugo Kaizan Nimmon Daibosatsu Hongi
The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo
IN the northeastern area of Kyoto is a hill called Kagura-oka, 'Hill of Sacred Dances'. In 859 Fujiwara Yamakage #RLLR$ built a replica of the Kasuga Shrine (the shrine dedicated in Nara to the ancestral and tutelary kami of the Fujiwara house) at the western foot of the hill, and called it Yoshida Shrine; the hill is therefore also known as Mt Yoshida. The history of that hill is little known in spite of its dramatic impact on the world of shrin…
Problematic Representations in the Study of Japanese Religions
James Dobbins, Jodo Shinshu, Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 256, $35, ISBN 0-253-33186-2. Byron Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and religion in contemporary Japan Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 300, $57.50, ISBN 0-253-35007-7
Institution, Ritual, and Ideology: The Twenty-Two Shrine-Temple Multiplexes of Heian Japan
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple complexes, Allan Grapard characterizes what he calls the combinatory character of pre-modern Japanese religiosity. He argues that Shintoism and Buddhi…
Flying Mountains and Walkers of Emptiness: Toward a Definition of Sacred Space in Japanese Religions
Japan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities in Meiji ("Shimbutsu Bunri") and a Case Study: Tōnomine
Voltaire and East Asia— A Few Reflections on the Nature of Humanism
Grapard Allan G. Voltaire and East Asia— A Few Reflections on the Nature of Humanism. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 1, 1985. pp. 59-70
Lotus in the Mountain, Mountain in the Lotus: Rokugo Kaizan Nimmon Daibosatsu Hongi
Linguistic cubism: A singularity of pluralism in the Sannō cult
Institution, Ritual, and Ideology: The Twenty-Two Shrine-Temple Multiplexes of Heian Japan
Enduring Problems in the Study of Japanese Religions On Understanding Japanese Religion . Joseph M. Kitagawa
Visions of excess and excesses of vision: Women and transgression in Japanese myth
A persistent problem for historians of Japanese religions has been proper identification and definition of Other World, a realm beyond ordinary experience that is also thought to be abode of kami and, occasionally, of dead as well. Despite fact that Japanese tradition uses several names to refer to that experiential zone, most scholars conceive of it as a single entity and thus contribute to a confusion that has continued unabated to this day. It…
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. This volume has significantly raised the standa…
The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
Rule-governed activity vs. rule-creating activity
Problematic Representations in the Study of Japanese Religions
James Dobbins, Jodo Shinshu, Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 256, $35, ISBN 0-253-33186-2. Byron Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and religion in contemporary Japan Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 300, $57.50, ISBN 0-253-35007-7
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature
The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo
IN the northeastern area of Kyoto is a hill called Kagura-oka, 'Hill of Sacred Dances'. In 859 Fujiwara Yamakage #RLLR$ built a replica of the Kasuga Shrine (the shrine dedicated in Nara to the ancestral and tutelary kami of the Fujiwara house) at the western foot of the hill, and called it Yoshida Shrine; the hill is therefore also known as Mt Yoshida. The history of that hill is little known in spite of its dramatic impact on the world of shrin…
Hōsōgami ou la petite vérole aisément. Matériaux pour l'étude des épidémies dans le Japon des XVIIIe, XIXe siècles ["Hōsōgami" or Smallpox Contracted Easily]
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple complexes, Allan Grapard characterizes what he calls the combinatory character of pre-modern Japanese religiosity. He argues that Shintoism and Buddhi…
TWELVE. Geosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of Space
The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
Geotyping Sacred Space: The Case of Mount Hiko in Japan
Shugendō, an institutional and ritual system elaborated in Japan over a period of several centuries, evolved as a vehicle to achieve Buddhahood by means of various austerities and ascetic practices that were performed in mountains, with the assistance of complex rituals related mainly to Esoteric Buddhism and sometimes to Taoism, and through diverse cults rendered to combined native and foreign deities.1 These cults were given in what is often re…
Religious practices
This chapter deals with the establishment of religion in Japan during the Heian era with a focus on presence or concurrent establishment of shrines in the immediate vicinity of temples, and about the growth and status of ritual practices in both shrines and temples. The creation of the Twenty-two Shrine-temple system, coupled with the reformulation of ritual procedures, was a momentous event indicative of what came to be the dominant ideology of …
The Cambridge History of Japan
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language. From Heian-kyo, founded in 794, the Japanese emperor ruled over an elaborate government modelled on China's absolute monarchy. Ambassadors to the T'ang court and students studying in China brought back laws, ideas, Buddhism, temple architecture, sculpture, and wall-painting. Chinese influences blended …
Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise
Of Emperors and Foxy Ladies
Afin de s'établir comme symboles du "centre", les empereurs du Japon n 'ont pu se passer de la « périphérie », qui semble avoir été créée dans ce seul but. Cet article discute quelques moyens qui furent employés à cet égard : la profonde relation entre les empereurs et les courtisanes, l'évolution historique des rites d'intronisation sous l'influence du bouddhisme ésotérique et autres rites, et la non moins profonde relation entre ces rites et le…
Shrines Registered in Ancient Japanese Law: Shinto or Not
The Procedures of the Engl Era (Engl shiki) contain registers of 2 862 shrines to which the imperial government made offerings during the Nara and Heian periods. An analysis of these shrines is conducted on the basis of three working hypotheses. First, the possibility that the location of these shrines may have been of strategic importance in the political and military campaigns of Yamato, Nara, and Heian Japan. Second, the possibility that these…
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