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Togakushi Boundary Contraction

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 15_DAOIST_PRECEPTS_ISE_BOUNDARIES_v2_3.md.

Source file: 15_DAOIST_PRECEPTS_ISE_BOUNDARIES_v2_3.md

Class: HISTORICAL SPATIAL TABOO CHANGE

A particularly useful chronological example:

  1. In a tradition dated to 1058, the boundary reached Fushiogami near the Lower Hall.
  2. In the Kamakura period it moved upward toward the Middle Shrine.
  3. In the Edo period women were permitted still farther, toward the Oku-sha zone at Koshimizu-hara.

Sacred boundaries expand and contract with institutional strength, pilgrimage economy and religious change.