Publicomos

Réf.

41413

Type

conference item

Titre

Sacred mountains where being of "Kami" is found

Langues

English

Auteurs

Yano, Kazuyuki

Date

2008

Pagination de section

1-11

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Quebec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

sacred places / mountains / intangible heritage / temples / shrines / natural sites / places of religion and ritual / religions

Pays mentionnés

Japan

Monuments et sites

Obama City, Japan / Hiraizumi, Japan

Résumé en anglais

Since primeval days to date, the Japanese have regardedcertain mountains as objects of worship believing that mountains are places where multitudinous gods reside. This belief inmountains as sacred places still lives on and is practiced in the Japanese traditional religion, Shinto, which is based on animismand ancestor worship. Today, this notion of sacredness is generally accepted and understood together with concepts from Chinese philosophies, such as Confucianism and Taoism, and Buddhism, which have evolved over a long time. In Japan, volcanoes or high, well-formed mountains, as well as smaller hills standing close tohuman settlements, were believed to be sacred places. This paper explores how temples and shrines have been intentionally situatedin relation to such mountains in order to create the sacred place as a whole area.

Document joint

77-Epvp-23.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)