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Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives |
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| 作者 |
Schmidt-Hori, Sachi (著)
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| 出版日期 | 2021.06 |
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| 頁次 | 254 |
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| 出版者 | University of Hawaii Press |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 附註項 | Sachi Schmidt-Hori is assistant professor in Japanese literature at Dartmouth College. |
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| 摘要 | In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts.
Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection. |
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| 目次 | Acknowledgments ix
Prelude xiii
Introduction: Becoming a Chigo 1
Chapter One: Chigo Monogatari: Central Themes, Archetypes, and the Politics and Aesthetics of Acolyte-Monk Love 41
Chapter Two: A Booklet of Acolytes: An Erotic Handscroll of Five Capricious Boys 78
Chapter Three: The Mountain: An Acolyte Tale of Traversals, Transformations, and Triumph 104
Chapter Four: The Chigo Known as Miss Rookie: When an Acolyte Falls in Love with an Aristocratic Lady 134
Epilogue 161
Glossary 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 207
Index 223 |
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| ISBN | 9780824886790 (hc); 9780824888923 (pbk) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824888930 |
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| 相關書評 | - Book Review: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-Hori / Childs, Margaret H. (評論)
- Book Review: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-Hori / Han, Yufei (評論)
- Book Review: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-Hori / Kawai, Sachiko (評論)
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| 點閱次數 | 177 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.12 |
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| 更新日期 | 2023.09.12 |
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