02947nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10461338 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080508s2008 ne a sb 001 0 eng d 2008020517 9789004164710 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789047443056 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)714879772 a-ja--- DS822.25 .P67 2008eb 305.6/9439260952 22 Porcu, Elisabetta. Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture [electronic resource] / by Elisabetta Porcu. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. x, 263 p. : ill. Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 121 Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Pure Land Buddhism Japan. Japan Civilization Pure Land influences. Japan Civilization 1868- Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Studies in the history of religions ; 121. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10461338 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 130237 130237