Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture / by Elisabetta Porcu.

• Superior document: Numen book series, v. 121
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Porcu, Elisabetta.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 121.
• Physical Description: x, 263 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture
• Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions
• Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism
• Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II
• Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy
• Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context
• Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school
• Jodo Shinshu and literature
• Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree
• Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki
• A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu
• Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu
• Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu
• Harold H. Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto
• The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician
• Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts
• Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi
• Yanagi and cultural nationalism
• The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki
• Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts
• Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land
• Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony
• Images of chanoyu
• Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu
• A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea
• Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.