The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art: Volume 8

by Susan C. Tyler

Kasuga was the Shinto shrine of the Fujiwara clan and was paired with Kofuku-ji, the clan's Buddhist temple. Since the beginning of the Meiji period, Buddhism and Shinto have been officially separated. At a site such as Kasuga in an earlier time, however, the practices and beliefs appropriate to a shrine and to a temple were linked according to the pricniple that the Shinto gods were local and particular emanations of universal Buddhist deities. Thus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939512475
• ISBN13: 9780939512478
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 256 Pages