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Preachers, poets, women, and the way : Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist literature of medieval Japan
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Preachers, poets, women, and the way : Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist literature of medieval Japan / R. Keller Kimbrough.
ISBN
9781929280476 (cloth : alk. paper)
1929280475 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781929280483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1929280483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ann Arbor, MI : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Translations of some excerpts from the Japanese included.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2009
Series
Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 62
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index.
Contents
Setsuwa sources and the origins of an affair
Mice in the koto: the otogizōshi Kotohara
Incest and enlightenment: the otogizōshi Izumi Shikibu
Tendai tales: Sangoku denki and the Lotus Sutra commentaries
The Pure Land proselytizing traditions of Seiganji Temple
Writing redemption: A history of Seiganji in the Capital
Climbing the Forbidden Mountain: Nyonin kinsei and the gendered proselytizing traditions of Medieval Japan
Sex and salvation: Izumi Shikibu and the tale of Jōruri
Popular preaching and the dissemination of culture.
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