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Kagawa: A Guide to Sanuki, Gateway to Shikoku
- Author(s):
- Steve McCarty (see profile) , Hideko Narasaki, Akiko Takemoto
- Editor(s):
- James Kirkup
- Date:
- 1988
- Group(s):
- Buddhist Studies, Digital Humanities East Asia, Premodern Japanese History
- Subject(s):
- Japan, Japanese--Social life and customs, Japanese--Religion, Buddhism, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Folklore
- Item Type:
- Book
- Tag(s):
- Shikoku, Kagawa, Kukai, Japanese culture, Japanese religions, Japanese Buddhism, Pilgrimage
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/22dc-kz19
- Abstract:
- A cultural, historical, and practical guidebook to Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku across the narrow Seto Inland Sea from the main island of Japan. Formerly the province of Sanuki, a compact area with convenient train lines, it has great potential for tourism. An active region culturally for more than 2,000 years, it was the birthplace of the great saint Kobo Daishi Kukai, whose career inspired the Pilgrimage of Shikoku. The Kompira-san mountain area is an intersection of the gods syncretizing a half-dozen Asian religions. Folklore, artifacts, and history, as lovingly explained by co-authors who were local teachers, bring out the culture from Emperors to everyday people.
- Notes:
- New online version of the book in one PDF file of 76 pages. It has more details about Kagawa Prefecture than the English-Japanese Shikoku Bilingual Guidebook by Akiko Takemoto and Steve McCarty, who did in situ research for his M.A. thesis in Kagawa and elsewhere on Shikoku island.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
kagawa_guidebook.pdf