Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37011-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 738 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in many new and interactive ways and constitute a pioneering attempt to combine ritual and gendered analysis with the study of objects.
Contributors include: Anna Andreeva, Monica Bethe, Patricia Fister, Sherry Fowler, Karen M. Gerhart, Hank Glassman, Naoko Gunji, Elizabeth Morrissey, Chari Pradel, Barbara Ruch, Elizabeth Self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerhart, Karen M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Barbara Ruch
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors

Introduction
Karen M. Gerhart

Part 1 Rituals Related to the Household and Childbirth

1 Women and “Moving-House” Rituals in Mid-Heian Japan
Karen M. Gerhart

2 Devising Esoteric Rituals for Women: Fertility and the Demon Mother in the Gushi nintai sansho himitsu hoshu
Anna Andreeva

3 Taira no Tokushi’s Birth of Emperor Antoku
Naoko Gunji

Part 2 Women and Buddhist Rituals and Icons

4 A Female Deity as the Focus of a Buddhist Ritual: Kichijo Keka at Horyuji
Chari Pradel

5 The Relic and the Jewel: An Eleventh-Century Miniature Bronze Pagoda to Hold the Bones of a Young Queen
Hank Glassman

6 Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print
Sherry Fowler

Part 3 Buddhist Women and Death Memorials

7 Commemorating Life and Death: The Memorial Culture Surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai
Patricia Fister

8 Of Surplices and Certificates: Tracing Mugai Nyodai’s Kesa
Monica Bethe

Part 4 Female Patronage, Portraits, and Rituals

9 Retired Empress and Buddhist Patron: Higashisanjo-in Donates a Set of Icon Curtains in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll
Elizabeth Morrissey

10 Life After Death: The Intersection of Patron and Subject in the Portrait of Joko-in
Elizabeth Self

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen M. Gerhart, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published monographs and articles on Japan, including The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority (1999) and The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan (2009).