The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
Presents Tokiko’s cosmology and her view of the heavens as the place where the rectification of the world’s chaos would begin. By envisioning a link between her personal body and the body of the realm Tokiko claimed a pivotal role as healer of the country writ large, illuminating a new strategy through which women in nineteenth-century Japan could chart paths of political action. The chapter also compares Tokiko’s spiritualism to that of the new religions of the late Tokugawa.
Keywords: Shugendō, comets, ghosts, Sugawara no Michizane, new religions, Nakayama Miki, Deguchi Nao, illness, Nomura Bōtō
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