immortal wishes:
labor and transcendence
on a Japanese sacred mountain

Ellen Schattschneider

Duke University Press (2003)

TEACHING RESOURCES

AKAKURA MOUNTAIN SHRINE STATUES


The Shrine's Foundress

Statue of the Foundress in the Miedio subshrine, in the rear of the complex. A cloth bag rests on her lap.

 


Website developed by Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis University)

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