Buddhas and Kami in Japan
Subtitle: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: December 27, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415297479
First sentence: This book discusses a central issue in the history of pre-modern Japanese religion, namely the idea that local, native deities (kami) are emanations of universal, Buddhist divinities - a notion known in Japanese as honji suijaku ("original forms of deities and their local traces").