Mountains on the Move: From Kumano Sanzan to Dewa Sanzan

Speaker:

Andrea Castiglioni

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University

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When and Where:

3:30–5:00 pm (JST), Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Room 6019, Kanagawa University—Minatomirai Campus
Minatomirai 4-5-3, Nishi-ku, Yokohama

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Registration Details:

Zoom

There is NO need to preregister to attend via Zoom. Simply log in with the Meeting ID and Passcode below and join us online when the talk starts. 
Zoomでのご参加は事前登録不要です。当日、下記のZoomミーティングIDとパスコードでログインしてください。

Zoom Meeting ID:  964 9982 8957 Passcode: KUMMC


In Person

Kanagawa students & staff do not need to pre-register. Everyone else, please preregister below.
神奈川大学関係者は事前登録不要です。学外ご来場の方は下記にてご登録ください

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Access:

https://www.mmc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/about/access.html

Non-KU community members, please also register as a guest at the Information counter near the entrance before coming up to room 6019 on the 6th floor.

学外ご来場の方は、当日、1FのInformationカウンターでGuest登録を済ましてから、6019号室(6階)までお越しください

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Abstract:

The cult of the Three Mountains of Dewa—Haguro, Yudono, and Gassan—originated from the spread of faith in the Three Mountains of Kumano—Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi—in the Tōhoku provinces since the twelfth century. This talk focuses on some of the key features of this devotional transmission concerning the Three Mountains of Kumano and Dewa not only by examining the role of retired emperors such as Toba (1103–1156) and Go-Shirakawa (1127–1192) but also by analyzing the crucial activities carried out by the “Kumano guides” (Kumano sendatsu) in founding parishes (dannaba) dedicated to the worship of these sacred mountainous sites. In addition to their role as guides for Kumano pilgrims, the Kumano sendatsu exercised a crucial function in the ritual transfer (kanjō) of the Kumano pantheon within the Tōhoku landscape, fostered the replacement of Senju Kannon with Shō Kannon to fit the regional worshiping taste, and promoted the circulation of specific ascetic practices such as the “one-thousand-days ritual seclusion” (sennichi no sanrō) among local ascetics. This talk aims, therefore, to show how the transmission of faith into sacred mountains such as the Kumano and Dewa triads was always also a creative operation of translation and adaptation to enable full devotional circulation within hitherto unexplored religious and social landscapes.

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Questions (お問い合わせ): James Welker jrwelker@kanagawa-u.ac.jp

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This talk is part of the International Japanese Studies Lecture Series organized by the International Japanese Studies Group in the Institute for Humanities Research at Kanagawa University.

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