Shinran as “Other” : Revisiting Kurata Hyakuzō’s The Priest and His Disciples

Ama, Michihiro (著)=阿満道尋 (au.)

作者

Ama, Michihiro (著)=阿満道尋 (au.)

出處題名

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

卷期

v.43 n.2

出版日期

2016

頁次

253 - 274

出版者

Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所

出版者網址

http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/

出版地

名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan]

資料類型

期刊論文=Journal Article

使用語言

英文=English

關鍵詞

The Priest and His Disciples; Kurata Hyakuzō; history and fiction; Shinran; Honganji

摘要

Kurata Hyakuzō’s The Priest and His Disciples (Shukke to sono deshi, 1916) contributed to the unprecedented rise of religious literature during the Taishō period. The development of the Japanese religious world and the growing interests in religion by Japanese intellectuals during this period encouraged
Kurata to humanize Shinran and paved the way for The Priest and His Disciples to become a bestseller. Although The Priest and His Disciples is much studied, the role of fiction played in the work based on the life of a medieval Buddhist priest remains unexplored. This study first provides a background to The Priest and His Disciples and explains why it aroused such interest at the time. It then treats the image of Shinran at the intersection of history and fiction by referring to the study of Michel de Certeau and investigates how Kurata constructed an image of Shinran as the “other” in The Priest and His Disciples and placed it in history and in legends about Shinran.

The Background 256
A Synopsis of The Priest and His Disciples 261
Humanizing the Akunin, Person of Unwholesome Karma 263
Reviving the Relationship between Shinran and Zenran 267
Conclusion 270

ISSN

03041042 (P)

DOI

10.18874/jjrs.43.2.2016.253–274

點閱次數

245

建檔日期

2017.08.17

更新日期

2017.08.17