Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan

Karen M. Gerhart (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

436 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
9789004370111 (ISBN)

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Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan seeks to expand our understanding of the roles women played in rituals, how particular rituals were carried out, what types of implements or icons accompanied them, and how various ritual objects were used.

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.

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).

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 sanshō himitsu hōshū
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: Kichijō Keka at Hōryūji
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: Higashisanjō-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 Jōkō-in
Elizabeth Self

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; 63
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	820 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9789004370111 / 9789004370111
Zustand	Neuware