Mount Fuji
Icon of Japan
Will be published approx. on 12. October 2011
Book
Hardback
262 pages
978-1-61117-000-9 (ISBN)
Description
Illustrated with colour and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork-including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups-and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
11 colour and 7 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61117-000-9 (9781611170009)
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Person
For more than four decades H. Byron Earhart has taught and published in the areas of comparative religion and Japanese religion. An emeritus professor of comparative religion at Western Michigan University, he is the author of Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity, Religions of Japan: Many Traditions within One Sacred Way, and other books. Earhart lives in San Diego.