Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porcu, Elisabetta
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Studies in the history of religions ; 121.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.