Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38628-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Not Seeing Snow: Muso¯ Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Muso¯’s far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and the concerns of institution building. The appendix contains the first complete English translation of Muso¯’s personal waka anthology, Sho¯gaku Kokushishu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vallor, Molly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Zen-Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Prologue

List of Figures

Introduction: Zen in the Generations before Muso: The Growth of the Gozan System in Medieval Japan

1 The Life of Muso Soseki: A Critical Reading

2 Muso’s Early Life: A Turn to Zen

3 Practice and Enlightenment

5 Recluse and Abbot

6 Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo

7 Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court

8 Death and Legacy

1 A Master Defined: Muso Soseki in Muchu mondoshu

1 Muchu Mondoshuand the Tradition of Kana Hogoon Zen

2 Playing Teacher

3 A License to Critique

4 Calling Little Jade

5 Conclusion

2 Beneath the Ice: Muso Soseki and the Waka Tradition

1 Shogaku Kokushishu: An Incomplete Textual History

2 Muso and the Way of Waka

3 Affirming the Arts: Muso Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka

4 Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS

5 New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament

6 Rarefying the Pine Wind

7 Elegantly Unconfused

7 Conclusion

3 Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Muso Soseki’s Saihoji

1 A Long and Sacred History in Saihoshoja Engi

2 The Temple and the Blossoms

3 Blooms After Death in Shogaku Kokushishu

4 When the Shogun was at Saihoji after the Blossoms had Fallen

5 Zen in Bloom in Muso’s Chronology

6 The Muso Renovations: Muso and Medieval Landscape Design

7 Saihoji as Muso Memorial

8 Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihoji

9 Conclusion

4 Changing Agendas at Muso Soseki’s Tenryuji

1 Tenryuji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center

2 Taiheiki’s Tenryuji: Appearance of an Onryo

3 Tenryuji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism

4 Multiple Reconciliations

5 Securing Imperial Support for Tenryuji

6 Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives

7 Tying Tenryuji to Ashikaga Takauji in

8 Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix: Shogaku Kokushishu

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Molly Vallor, Ph.D. (2013), Stanford University, is Junior Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Meiji Gakuin University.