- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions
- Introduction
- I. The First Encounter: The Sekiten from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century
- 1. Chinese Origins: Canonical Confucian Rites and the Da Tang Kaiyuan li
- 2. A Foreign Spirit in Japan: Fujiwara Promotion, Kibi no Makibi, and the Kanmu Emperor
- 3. The Ninth Century: Oligarchy, Ambivalence, and Cultural Display
- 4. Two Literati and the Court’s Canonical Ceremony: Sugawara no Michizane, Miyoshi Kiyoyuki, and the Engishiki
- 5. The Long Decline: Traditionalism, Etiolation, and the Conflagration of 1177
- 6. The Court Ceremony’s Afterlife: Mere Ritual and Its Legacy
- II. The Second Encounter, First Phase: The Sekisai, 1598–1771
- 7. The Challenge of Revival: Post-Tang Liturgy in Late Feudal Japan
- 8. Confucian Spectacle in Edo: Hayashi Razan and Cultural Display
- 9. The Rehearsal of a Foreign Rite: Zhu Shunshui and Tokugawa Mitsukuni
- 10. The Shogun’s Solo Dance: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
- 11. Puppetry, Derogation, and Decline: Arai Hakuseki and Tokugawa Yoshimune
- III. The Second Encounter, Second Phase: Imperial Sacrifice, the Reform of 1800, and Decline
- 12. New Perspectives: Nativism, Confucian Controversy, and the Palace and Warrior Cults
- 13. Emperor and Uncrowned King: The Palace Rite, the Kōkaku Emperor, and the Gakushūin
- 14. Back to the Past: Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Engishiki Revival
- 15. The Liturgists’ Discontents: Inuzuka Innan and Ōgōri Shinsai
- 16. The Shogun’s Rite: Adapting to a Warriors’ World
- 17. Traditionalism and Etiolation: Mere Ritual Again
- IV. The Final Drama: Confucius Displaced
- 18. Pluralism: Provincial Sekiten, Martial Cults, Shinto, and Mito Syncretism
- 19. Confucius Impugned: Hirata Shinto and Hasegawa Akimichi
- 20. Denouement in Meiji: Iwakura Tomomi and the Triumph of Shinto
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Sekiten in Modern Japan
- Appendixes [See https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:eXrJObgb8]
- 1. Nomenclature in the East Asian Cult of Confucius
- 2. Liturgical Details
- a. Engishiki: The Ceremony’s Bureaucratic Roots
- b. The Liturgy of the 1670 Rinke Sekisai
- c. The Mid-Nineteenth Century Bakufu Sekiten: A Diagram and Directives
- 3. Unofficial and Commoner Worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan
- 4. Early Tokugawa-Period Confucian Attitudes to the Sekiten
- 5. Notes on the Shōkōkan Documents and the Text of Zhu Shunshui’s Kaitei sekiten gichū
- 6. Early Warrior Ceremonies
- 7. The Cult of Confucius in Korea, Vietnam, and Ryūkyū
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 421
The Worship of Confucius in Japan
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