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Memories and Strategic Silence in Jōdoji engi |
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Goodwin, Janet R.
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Wilson, Kevin
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.42 n.1 |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 109 - 131 |
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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 | Jōdoji; Chōgen; Kan’amidabutsu; Ōbe estate; Tōdaiji; jishū; cultural capital |
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| Abstract | Jōdoji engi, begun in 1372, records the history of a small temple established in 1192 on the grounds of Ōbe estate in Harima province. This article will compare the engi
’s account of the temple’s founder Chōgen and his successor Kan’amidabutsu, and of the construction of the temple itself, with documen-tary records. We note the engi’s emphasis on the wondrous and miraculous rather than on the temple’s role in land reclamation and estate supervision that the documents stress. We also examine the engi’s silences, particularly in regard to violent confrontations between Jōdoji monks and Ōbe estate’s pro-prietor, Tōdaiji, and the estate’s local managers beginning in the 1290s. The documentary record has little else to say about Jōdoji after the 1220s; and the engi does not fill us in. We will ask what picture of the temple the engi’s com-pilers were trying to project through what they chose to record and to omit. |
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| Table of contents | The Structure of Jōdoji engi
Portrait of the Temple’s Founder
Jōdoji’s Founding and Early History
Return to the Pure Land: Kan’amidabutsu
Violence on the Estate
The Engi: Strategic Silence?
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 500 |
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| Created date | 2015.07.17 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.14 |
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