Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

by Ian Reader

Book Overview

This study involves a fourteen-hundred-kilometer-long pilgrimage around Japan's fourth largest island, Shikoku. In traveling the circuit of the eighty-eight Buddhist temples that make up the route, pilgrims make their journey together with K b Daishi (774-835), the holy miracle-working figure who is at the heart of the pilgrimage.

Once seen as a marginal practice, recent media portrayal of the pilgrimage as a symbol of Japanese cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829077
• ISBN13: 9780824829070
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"