Mountain Mandalas

Illustrations
Preface
Organization of the Book
Acknowledgements
A Note on Translation and Text

1. Shugendo and the Production of Social Space
Kyushu Island: an ignored world
The Hachiman cult's nebulous origins
Usa: from prehistoric village to cultic city
Oracular pronouncements as divine directives
The early Heian period: Iwashimizu Hachiman
The Kunisaki Peninsula's links to Usa
Mount Hiko

2. Geotyped and Chronotyped Social Spaces
Hachiman's traveling icons
Mount Hiko: of swords, meteors, dragons, and goshawks
Waiting for dawn on Mount Hiko: the geotype and chronotype of heterotopia
Mount Hiko's Sacred Perimeter: four corners and three dimensions
Altitude and altered states of mind: creating a Dojo
Mandala templates: divine planning
Geotyped and chronotyped, encoded, mandalized bodies
The visionary imperative

3. Festivities and Processions: Spatialities of Power
Mount Hiko as a socio-ritualized space
Mount Hiko's conflicts with Mount Homan and the Shogo-in monzeki
Mount Hiko's ritual calendar
The New Year's shusho tsuina rite: expel and invite
The shusho goo rite: paper, pill, oath
The kissho shugi rite: sanctioning power and rank
Mountain sanctuaries awash in seawater: the shioitori rite
For the birds: the Zokei goku rite
The Matsue and Ondasai ritual festivities
Mineiri: the mandalized peregrinations
Mandalized itineraries
Practices in the mountains
The Daigyoji shrines and water
Usa Hachiman's oracular spatialities
Kunisaki: a much-disturbed heterotopia
The geognostic realm of the lotus in Kunisaki
Coursing through the peninsula

4. Shattered Bodies, Statues, and the Appeal of Truncated Memory
Mount Hiko's quasi-destruction and fall into irrelevance
Kunisaki: one breath away from the void of modernity
Hachiman's return in disguise
Afterword: From Spatialities to Dislocation
Rays of light

Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index