Plotting the prince
Subtitle: Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism
By: Kevin Gray Carr
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780824834630
Subjects: Cult; Buddhism; Art; Buddhist hagiography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan; title: The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia; title: Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times; title: Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place; title: The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji; title: Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji.