The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo by Yijiang Zhong

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

Yijiang Zhong

272 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as ...

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