Health-Related Votive Tablets from Japan: Ema for Healing and Well-Being

ISBN-13: 9789087282523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Peter De Smet; Ian Reader

Opis

Many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan sell illustrated wooden votive tablets, known as ema, which provide space for handwritten prayers or words of gratitude and are intended to be left at the sanctuary. This, the first book in English on the topic, reproduces hundreds of contemporary ema designs meant for health-related purposes and places them in their proper religious and medical contexts. It will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese culture or non-Western medicine.

Spis treści

Foreword
Abbreviations
Part one. Introduction
Part two. Health-related images
Part three. Human life
Part four: Illnesses
Part five: Animal health
Part six: Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Index of sanctuaries
Index of designs