Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture [electronic resource] / by Elisabetta Porcu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porcu, Elisabetta.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 121.

Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pure Land Buddhism--Japan.

Japan--Civilization--Pure Land influences.

Japan--Civilization--1868-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and occidentalism, this book, written from the perspective of the Study of Religions, provides an analysis of the impact that the Pure Land tradition, in particular Shin Buddhism, has exerted on mainstream forms of artistic expression (especially creative arts, literature and the tea ceremony) in modern and contemporary Japan.

Contents:

Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture

Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions

Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism

Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II

Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy

Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context

Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school

Jodo Shinshu and literature

Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree

Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki

A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu

Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu

Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu

Harold H. Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto

The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician

Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts

Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi

Yanagi and cultural nationalism

The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki

Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts

Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land

Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony

Images of chanoyu

Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu

A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea

Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06063-9

9786613060631

90-474-4305-5

OCLC:

704811946

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004164710.i-263 DOI