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Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist "Ancestor Worship" with Home Décor and Consumer Choice by Nelson, John

“…In Japan, where organized religion is increasingly viewed with a critical eye, one of the country's most enduring social and religious traditions-commemorating…”
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State Shinto in the Lives of the People: The Establishment of Emperor Worship, Modern Nationalism, and Shrine Shinto in Late Meiji by Susumu, Shimazono, 島茴進, Murphy, Regan E.

“…Taking the lead from Helen Hardacre's scholarship as well as recent postcolonial theory, this article seeks to delineate new terms in the longstanding debate…”
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A Concept of "Overseas Shinto Shrines": A Pantheistic Attempt by Ogasawara Shōzō and Its Limitations by Suga, Kōji

“…"Overseas Shinto shrines" (kaigai jinja) is a generic term that refers not only to colonial shrines within the former Japanese empire, but also to shrines…”
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Shinto Deities that Crossed the Sea: Japan's "Overseas Shrines," 1868 to 1945 by Michio, Nakajima, 𠀓𤚇𙥷𡌕𰀇

“…As Japan expanded its political influence over its Asian neighbors, Japanese migrants increasingly began to erect Shinto shrines in which to worship the…”
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Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth by Reider, Noriko T.

“…Tsukumogami are animate household objects. An otogizōshi ("companion tale") titled Tsukumogami ki ("Record of tool specters"; Muromachi period) explains that…”
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Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence by Klautau, Orion

“…This article examines the process by which the academic discourse on the decadence of early modern Buddhism was developed, especially in the context of Meiji…”
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Han Yong'un (1879–1944) and Buddhist Reform in Colonial Korea by Hur, Nam-lin

“…The practice of Buddhism in colonial Korea holds the key to understanding how Buddhist reformists tried to counter the challenges of modern transformation…”
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Invitation to the Secret Buddha of Zenkōji Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan by Hur, Nam-lin

“…In early modern Japan, for Buddhist temples endowed with famed "secret Buddhas," the kaichō was a lucrative means of public fundraising. In particular, at a…”
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The Purple Robe Incident and the Formation of the Early Modern Sōtō Zen Institution by Williams, Duncan

“…The transition from the medieval to the early modern Buddhist order was directed in large measure by a new regulatory regime instituted by the Tokugawa bakufu…”
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The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei's Zen Training with Korean Masters by Kim, Hwansoo

“…The Japanese Buddhist view of Korean Buddhism from 1877 to 1945 abounded with colonialist and imperialistic rhetoric. Japanese Buddhist missionaries declared…”
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The Development of the Temple-Parishioner System by Tamamuro, Fumio, 圭室文雄, Williams, Duncan

“…This essay examines the historical conditions for the establishment of the templeparishioner or danka system. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact beginnings…”
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"The Future of Korean Buddhism Lies in My Hands": Takeda Hanshi as a Sōtō Missionary by Kim, Hwansoo

“…Was the work of Japanese Buddhist missionaries "evil," as many historians have indicated? To problematize this view, this article revisits the most vilified of…”
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The Failed Prophecy of Shinto Nationalism and the Rise of Japanese Brazilian Catholicism by Shoji, Rafael

“…This article deals with the main religious transition that accomplished the redefinition of Japanese Brazilian identity after the Second World War. State…”
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Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination by Moerman, D. Max

“…The demonic female, an object of male anxiety and desire, has long been a stock character in Japanese Buddhist literature. This article examines two female…”
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Journey to the West by Elisonas, J. S. A.

“…What is often called the first Japanese embassy to Europe was actually a publicity stunt conceived in 1582 by Alexandro Valignano, the inspector of the…”
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Hachikazuki: Revealing Kannon's Crowning Compassion in Muromachi Fiction by Dix, Monika

“…The corpus of late-medieval Japanese fiction contains various stories about the benefits and favors obtained through devotion to the bodhisattva Kannon. One of…”
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Officials of the Afterworld: Ono no Takamura and the Ten Kings of Hell in the Chikurinji engi Illustrated Scrolls by Wakabayashi, Haruko

“…Takamurayama Chikurinji engi emaki is a two-scroll emaki preserved at Chikurinji, a Shingon temple in Nyūno, Hiroshima prefecture, and dated to the Muromachi…”
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Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation by Ahn, Juhn Y.

“…In his Yasenkanna and other writings Zen master Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) relies on two seemingly conflicting analogies to speak of the art of nourishing life…”
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The Development of Japanese New Religions in Brazil and Their Propagation in a Foreign Culture by Watanabe, Masako, 渡辺雅子

“…This article will examine Ōmoto, Konkōkyō, and Risshō Kōseikai as examples of New Religions among Brazilians of Japanese descent, and Sekai Kyūseikyō, Sōka…”
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Editors' Introduction: Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature by Kimbrough, Keller, Glassman, Hank

“…[...]like their more popular cousins rooted in medieval oral traditions, such as the otogizoshi Hachikazuki ... and the kowakamai Shizuka ..., which Monika Dix…”
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