Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture /c by Eisabetta Porcu.
Series: Numen book series
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789004164710
Subjects: Pure Land Buddhism -- Japan; Japan -- Civilization -- Pure Land influences; Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture; title: Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions; title: Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism; title: Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II; title: Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy; title: Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context; title: Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school; title: Jodo Shinshu and literature; title: Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree; title: Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki; title: A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu; title: Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu; title: Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu; title: Harold H. Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto; title: The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician; title: Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts; title: Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi; title: Yanagi and cultural nationalism; title: The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki; title: Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts; title: Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land; title: Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony; title: Images of chanoyu; title: Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu; title: A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea; title: Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.