Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations and Image Credits
Notes for the Reader
List of Contributors
Chapter One General Introduction: Rituals of Initiation and Consecration (kanjō) in Premodern Japan
Part One: Origins and Developments on the Asian Mainland
Chapter Two Reflections on the Royal Unction Waters
Chapter Three The Origin and Transformations of Abhiṣeka in Indian Buddhism
Chapter Four Birds of a Feather Bathe Together: Buddhist Consecration Rituals in Medieval China and their Relation to Daoism
Chapter Five Three Chapters on Consecration from the Oḍiyāna Mahāmudrā Lineage
Part Two: Imperial Consecration in Japan
Chapter Six The First Royal Abhiṣeka in Japan: Kūkai’s Esoteric Buddhist Ordination for the Grand Emperor Heizei
Chapter Seven Literary Secret Agents: Solving the Case of the Sokui Kanjō
Chapter Eight New Interpretations of Sokui Kanjō in the Modern Period: The Enthronement Ceremonies of Emperors Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa
Part Three: Religious Developments of the Imperial Consecration
Chapter Nine The Cultural History of Kanjō in Japan: The Integration of the Sacred and the Profane
Chapter Ten “Tossing the Flower for the Sake of the Divinities”: Kechien Kanjō and the Medieval Japanese Cosmology
Chapter Eleven Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Japanese Tendai Kurodani Lineage Consecrated Ordination (Kai Kanjō)
Chapter Twelve The Abhiṣeka of the Yogin: Bodily Practices and the Interiorization of Ritual in Medieval Japan
Chapter Thirteen The World of Shintō Kanjō, With a Focus on Ryōbu Shinto
Chapter Fourteen The Consecration of Acolytes (Chigo Kanjō): Ritualizing Male-Male Sexuality in Medieval Tendai
Chapter Fifteen Before the Appearance of Shugen Kanjō: Origin and History of a Forged Ritual
Chapter Sixteen Buchū Kanjō: Secret Dharma Transmission in the Shugendō Mountain-Entry Ritual
Part Four: Developments in the Arts
Chapter Seventeen Kokin Kanjō: Rituals and Conceptualizations
Chapter Eighteen The Consecration to the Art of the Biwa (Biwa Kanjō)
Chapter Nineteen Shō kanjō: Music Education, Secret Melodies, and Imperial Politics
Bibliography
Index