Musical Toys Offered to Gods at Miho Shrine: Instruments for Renewing Ritual Communication
This article investigates the socioreligious roles that musical toys and miniatures have performed in the modern development of the Miho cult. Miho Shrine in Shimane Prefecture developed a distinctive practice of accepting donations of musical instruments to the deities enshrined there, which was su...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
2018
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 391-422 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Miho Jinja
/ Musical instrument
/ Models and modelmaking
/ Sacrifice (Religion)
/ Commercialization
/ History 1645-2020
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BN Shinto KBM Asia TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Musical instruments
B Kagura B Toys B Geishas B Deities B Religious Studies B Priests B Purification rituals B Ritual music |
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