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1 online resource (xxiii, 411 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's Japanese studies library,
0925-6512 ;
volume 63
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Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 63.
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| Summary |
"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, class, and materiality, and the importance of objects as active participant in rituals, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women and "moving-house" rituals in mid-Heian Japan / Karen M. Gerhart -- Devising esoteric rituals for women : fertility and the demon mother in the Gushi Nintai Sansho Himitsu Hoshu / Anna Andreeva -- Taira no Tokushi's birth of Emperor Antoku / Naoko Gunji -- A female deity as the focus of a Buddhist ritual : Kichijo Keka at Horyuji / Chari Pradel -- The relic and the jewel : an eleventh-century miniature bronze pagoda to hold the bones of a young queen / Hank Glassman -- Connecting Kannon to women through print / Sherry Fowler -- Commemorating life and death : the memorial culture surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai / Patricia Fister -- Of surplices and certificates : tracing Mugai Nyodai's Kesa / Monica Bethe -- Retired empress and Buddhist patron : Higashisanjo-in donates a set of icon curtains in the illustrated legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll / Elizabeth Morrissey -- Life after death : the intersection of patron and subject in the portrait of Joko-in / Elizabeth Self. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rites and ceremonies -- Japan -- History.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Japan -- Religious life and customs.
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Women -- Religious aspects.
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Women -- Religious aspects. |
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Women -- Religious life -- Japan.
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Religious articles -- Japan.
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Women -- Religious life. |
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Anthropology of religion -- Japan.
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Religious articles. |
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Anthropology of religion. |
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RELIGION -- Reference. |
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Ritual. |
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Women -- Social life and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Gerhart, Karen M., 1949- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women, rites, and ritual objects in premodern Japan. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004370111 (DLC) 2018016390 (OCoLC)1046973329 |
| ISBN |
9789004368194 (e-book) |
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9004368191 (e-book) |
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9789004370111 (print) |
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9004370110 (print) |
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