Mount Fuji: icon of Japan

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 Mountain4 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
 Colour Plate
 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 PeopleFujiko: 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 NationalismFraming 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 Peace16 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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