Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgments

Preface: Invitation to Fuji

A Note on Japanese Names and Terms and on Citations

Part 1 The Power and Beauty of a Mountain

1 The Power of the Volcano: Fire and Water

The Story of a Mountain: Natural and Cultural

From Volcano to Sacred Mountain

2 The Beauty of the Ideal Mountain: Early Poetry and Painting

Fuji in Early Writing

Fuji in Classical Painting

3 Asceticism: Opening the Mountain

Fuji Pioneers: En no Gyoja and Matsudai Shonin

Shugendo: Fuji as an Ascetic Otherworld

Part 2 The Dynamics of a Cosmic Mountain

4 The Mountain Becomes the World

Kakugyo: Rebirth from Fuji

Minuki: Fuji as a Mountain Mandala

5 Touchstone of Ethical Life

Jikigyo Miroku: From Oil Merchant to Religious Reformer

Fasting to Death on Fuji and Transformation of Society

6 Cosmic Model and World Renewal

Fujido: Fuji as a Cosmic Mountain

Furikawari: The "Way of Fuji" as the Revolution of Society

7 Pilgrimage Confraternities: People Come to the Mountain

The "Eight Hundred and Eight" Fujiko

Fujiko: Pilgrimage to the Mountain

8 Miniature Fuji: The Mountain Comes to the People

Fujiko: Enshrining the Mountain

Fujizuka: Creating Miniature Fuji

Part 3 Fuji as Visual Ideal and Political Idea

9 Woodblock Prints and Popular Arts

Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japan

Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Hiroshige and Hokusai

Fuji as Decoration and Souvenir

10 Western "Discovery" of Woodblock Prints

Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japonisme

"Japonaiserie Forever"

Japanese "Rediscovery" of Woodblock Prints

11 The Enduring Image of Fuji in Modern Times

Giving Form to Japan's Identity: Fuji and the Ideology of Nationalism

Framing Japan's Identity: Money and Postage Stamps

Part 4 Fuji Devotion in Contemporary Japan

12 A Contemporary Fujiko

The Decline of Fujiko in Modern Times

Miyamotoko: Edo Customs in Tokyo

13 New Religions and Fuji

Maruyamakyo: The Crater of Fuji as a Mecca

Gedatsukai: Old Traditions in a New Religion

14 Surveying Contemporary Fuji Belief and Practice

Statistics and Personal Statements on Fuji Spirituality

Three Views of Fuji

Part 5 Fuji the Flexible Symbol

15 War and Peace

The Mobilization of Fuji

Fuji as the Emblem of Peace

16 The Future of an Icon

Stereotype and Commercial Logo, Erotica and Exotica

Secular Image and Patriotic Mantra

Epilogue: Descent from the Mountain

Appendix: Sino-Japanese Characters

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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