Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu

by Allan G. Grapard

Book Overview

In Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, and the Kunisaki Peninsula. Grapard draws from a rich range of theorists from the disciplines of geography, history, anthropology, sociology, and humanistic geography and situates the historical terrain of his research within a much larger context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350044938
• ISBN13: 9781350044937
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"