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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods

The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912

by Sarah Thal

A history of the pilgrimage centre of Konpira on Shikoku from the late sixteenth century to the end of the Meiji period. Thal shows in detail how the separation of kami and buddhas transformed a Buddhist deity into the Shinto shrine of Kotohira-gū.

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