When tengu talk
Subtitle: Hirata Atsutane's ethnography of the other world
By: Wilburn Hansen.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780824832094
Subjects: Hirata, Atsutane, -- 1776-1843; Hirata, Atsutane, -- 1776-1843; Takayama, Torakichi, -- b. 1806; Kokugaku; Japan -- Religion; Mediums -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new medium for an old message; title: Constructing Japanese identity: Senkyō ibun; title: The medium finds a promoter: Torakichi and Atsutane; title: Manipulating the medium: separating the sanjin from the tengu; title: The critique of China and defense of native culture; title: The critique of Buddhism and defense of native religion; title: The critique of the west and defense of native knowledge and ability; title: The medium is the message.