immortal wishes:
labor and transcendence
on a Japanese sacred mountain

Ellen Schattschneider

Duke University Press (2003)

 

Teaching Resources

Akakura Mountain Shrine Rituals

 

 

The Hakkoda Pilgrimage

Each August, worshippers take a one day pilgrimage from Akakura Mountain Shrine to Hakkoda mountain, in the center of Aomori Prefecture.

Here, worshippers pray at a steep gorge known as "Akukura", symbolically tied to Akakura Mountain, which is about about an hour's drive to the west.

 

Previous Ceremony:

Great Summer Festival (July)

Next Ceremony:

Ancestor Memorialization (October)

 

Internet Resources on Hakkoda Mountains

The Hakkoda Mountains

http://www.jomon.ne.jp/~affairj/english/gettingaround/hiking/hakkoda/hakkoda.htm

Includes map and hiking routes.

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Website developed by Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis University)