Dancing as if Possessed: A Coming Out Party in Edo Spirit Society
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies November 1, 2010 Wilburn Hansen 1 citation
The nineteenth-century nativist Hirata Atsutane's desire to discover information about his theorized supernatural Other World of kami and other spirits was fulfilled through his leading conversations with the so-called tengu apprentice Torakichi. This interaction is well-documented in his work Senkyo ibun, which should be understood as a pseudo-ethnography of that Other World. However,...