immortal wishes:
labor and transcendence
on a Japanese sacred mountain

Ellen Schattschneider

• Architecture
• Junior branch
• Paintings
• Shrine rituals
• Sacred beings
• Sacred places
• Statues
• Video footage

• Readings
• Internet links
• Summary of Book

Immortal Wishes (Home)

Brandeis Anthropology

Akakura Mountain Shrine

• Architecture
• Junior branch
• Paintings
• Statues
• Tsugaru folk religion
• Video footage

Shrine rituals

• Ancestor Memorial
• Ascetic practice (shugyo)
• Cooking Pot
• Dragon Princess
• Great Summer Festival
• Hakkoda Pilgrimage
• Kuyo (memorialization)
• Mountain Closing
• Mountain Opening
• Offerings
• Saigi, Saigi (song)
• Sword of Fudo
• Videos of rituals

• Akakura Daigongen
• Amaterasu
• Dragon
• Dragon Princess
• Fudo Myoo
• Great Mother (the shrine foundress)
• Itako
• Jizo Bodhisattva
• Kamisama
• Kannon Bodhisattva
• Kobo Daishi (Kukai)
• Koshin deity
• Oni (Demons)
• Onigamisama
• Oshirasama
• Sakanoue Tamuramaro

Sacred Places

• Akakura Gorge
• Mount Akakura
• Mount Hakkoda
• Mount Taihei
• Mount Iwaki
• Oishi Shrine
• Ozorezan
• Ubaishi
• Waterfall of Fudo

Popular Religion in northern Tohoku (especially Tsugaru)

III. Suggested Readings

IV. Related Links: Internet Resources