Ellen Schattschneider. Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain.(Book Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Shishin, Alex | COPYRIGHT 2003 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. $21.95.

THIS IS A FASCINATING STUDY of a religious community in Japan based around Akakura Mountain in Aomori Prefecture on the Tsugaru peninsula on the northern tip of the main island of Honshu. Schattschneider, an anthropologist, lived in Aomori periodically throughout the 1990s. She is fluent in Japanese. Her book is a study of the rituals of the Akakura Yama Jinja (Akakura Mountain Shrine) and the lives of the faithful. Her knowle...

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