Kumano Pilgrimage and Religious Reform

Name: Kumano Pilgrimage and Religious Reform
Start: 1111
End: 1115

Type Event Region Japan Time 1111–1115

Around 1111 CE, the pilgrimage boom to the three Kumano mountains (Hongu, Shingū, Nachi) kept expanding, with imperial family, courtiers, and commone…

Timeline

1111–1112Kii road · KiiCourtiers, samurai, and commoners traveled the Kii road to worship at the three Kumano mountains; shrine houses, lodging temples, and preaching halls flourished along the way, and Kumano worship expanded from mountain worship into a nationwide sacred-site network.
1111–1115three Kumano mountains · KumanoKumano Gongen faith integrated native Shinto with Buddhist Pure Land and esoteric practice; Shugendō monks oversaw shrine-temple consolidation and ritual services, advancing late Heian mountain religious reform and the popularization of folk belief.

Sources

熊野古道 https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1352/
日本宗教史 — 村上重良 (1981)