Scholarship and Thought about the Sacred City of Ise in Early-Modern Japan

The Grand Shrine of Ise, or Jingū, was greatly revered by common people in the Edo period, and as the practice of okage mairi (mass pilgrimages to Jingū) indicates, many people visited the sacred city of Shinto, Ise City in Mie Prefecture. Ise was both the central place of faith and leading center of scholarship and intellectual thoughts.

This book focuses on selected scholars closely relating to Ise including priests who served at Jingū, traces their scholarly works that blossomed, and examines their important roles in the history of literary attainments in Japan.