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Bodies of Evidence: Imperial Funeral Rites and the Meiji Restoration |
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Gilday, Edmund T.
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.27 n.3-4 |
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| Date | 2000 |
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| Pages | 273 - 296 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Kōmei; Meiji; sōsō girei; shinsādsai |
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| Abstract | Prior to the Meiji period (1868-1912) imperial funerals and memorial rites in Japan had been conducted as Buddhist ceremonies for over a millennium. It is said that the emperor Meiji’s father, Komei, was buried according to Buddhist protocols; it was not until memorial rites in 1869 marking the third anniversary of Komei's death that all vestiges of Buddhist liturgy were ostensibly proscribed as part of a wider attempt to purify the nation of the evil of Buddhism. But these observations tend to obscure what is actually known about the imperial mortuary tradition, especially at critical moments in its modern metamorphosis. This essay questions the historical judgment that Kdmei’s mortuary rites mark a clean break with tradition, suggesting instead that the twentieth-century conventions of imperial mortuary practice did not in fact get established until after the Meiji period had come to an end. |
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| Table of contents | Historical Background 275
Imperial Rites 275
Shinso Undo 神葬運動: The Emergence of "Native" or "Local" Funeral Right Movements 277
Yoshida Family Rites 281
Meiji Period Developments 283
The Case of Emperor Kōmei 284
The Case of the Empress Dowager Eishō 289
Conclusion 292
References 293 |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Created date | 2019.10.01 |
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