Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Yonaoshi God: The Apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784 21
6. Chapter 2. The Rush Hour of Yonaoshi Gods: Late Tokugawa Peasant Uprisings and the Logic of World Renewal 42
7. Chapter 3. Tokugawa Bureaucrats Deified as Yonaoshi Gods: Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara 63
8. Chapter 4. Upholding a Catfish as a Yonaoshi God: The Earthquake Catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake 86
9. Chapter 5. Yonaoshi Gods Falling from the Sky: Rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a Communal Religious Celebration 109
10. Chapter 6. An Illusion of a Yonaoshi God: The Chichibu Incident of 1884 130
11. Chapter 7. A Universal Yonaoshi God from the Northeast: Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto’s Hinagata Millenarianism 154
12. Conclusion 175
13. Abbreviations 179
14. Notes 181
15. Bibliography 209
16. Index 227
17. About the Author 237