Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index.
Summary
A fascinating look at a Zen convent throughout its history.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Winds of doctrine : the world of thought and feeling in Late Kamakura Japan -- Ch. 2 Muju Ichien's Mirror for women (Tsuma kagami, 1300), a Buddhist vernacular tract of the Late Kamakura period -- Ch. 3 Abbess Kakusan and the Kamakura Hojo -- Ch. 4 Princess Yodo's purple-clad nuns -- Ch. 5 From sanctuary to divorce temple : Abbess Tenshu and the Later Kitsuregawa administrators -- Ch. 6 Everyday life at Matsugaoka Tokeiji : sacred and secular -- Ch. 7 "divorce temple" in Edo satirical verse.
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