Women, rites, and ritual objects in premodern Japan /edited by Karen M. Gerhart.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Brill's Japanese studies library .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Women and "moving-house" rituals in mid-Heian Japan / Devising esoteric rituals for women : fertility and the demon mother in the Gushi Nintai Sansho Himitsu Hoshu / Taira no Tokushi's birth of Emperor Antoku / A female deity as the focus of a Buddhist ritual : Kichijo Keka at Horyuji / The relic and the jewel : an eleventh-century miniature bronze pagoda to hold the bones of a young queen / Connecting Kannon to women through print / Commemorating life and death : the memorial culture surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai / Of surplices and certificates : tracing Mugai Nyodai's Kesa / Retired empress and Buddhist patron : Higashisanjo-in donates a set of icon curtains in the illustrated legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll / Life after death : the intersection of patron and subject in the portrait of Joko-in / Karen M. Gerhart -- Anna Andreeva -- Naoko Gunji -- Chari Pradel -- Hank Glassman -- Sherry Fowler -- Patricia Fister -- Monica Bethe -- Elizabeth Morrissey -- Elizabeth Self.
"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"--
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Rites and ceremonies--History.--Japan Women--Religious aspects. Women--Religious life--Japan. Religious articles--Japan. Anthropology of religion--Japan.