edited by Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores P. Martinez
Travel as spiritual quest in Japan / Peter Ackermann -- Pilgrimage roads in Spain and Japan / Jesus Gonzalez Valles -- Pilgrimage, space and identity : Ise )Japan( and Santiago de Compostela )Spain( / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- The concept of pilgrimage in Japan / Sachiko Usui -- The daily life of the henro on the island of Shikoku during the Edo period as mirror of Tokugawa society / Nathalie Kouame -- Strangers and pilgrimage in village Japan / Teigo Yoshida -- Current increase in walking pilgrims / Eiki Hoshino -- New forms of pilgrimage in Japanese society / Maria Rodriguez del Alisal -- Old gods, new pilgrimages? A whistle stop tour of Japanese international theme parks / Joy Hendry -- Pilgrimages in Japan : how far are they determined by unconsciously held assumptions? / Peter Ackermann -- Agari-umai, or the Eastern Tour : a Ryukyuan royal ritual and its transformations / Patrick Beillevaire -- Takiguchi Shuzo and Joan Miro / Pilar Cabanas -- Hiroshima, mon amour : an inner pilgrimage to catharsis / Antonio Santos -- The 'initiation rites' and 'pilgrimages' of local civil servants in the age of internationalization / Hirochika Nakamaki -- Travel ethnography in Japan / Jan van Bremen -- A Japanese painter's quest : Suda Kunitaro's journey to Spain / Rosalia Medina Bermejo -- Pilgrimage and experience : an afterword / Dolores P. Martinez