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Author:

Kimbrough, R. Keller, 1968- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008057600

Title:

Preachers, poets, women, and the way : Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist literature of medieval Japan / R. Keller Kimbrough.

Publisher:

Center for Japanese StudiesThe University of Michigan,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xiii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Buddhist literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
Japanese literature--1185-1600--History and criticism.
Women authors in literature.
Women authors, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185--Fiction.
Fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index.

Contents:

Setsuwa sources and the origins of an affair -- Mice in the koto: the otogizōshi Kotohara -- Incest and enlightenment: the otogizōshi Izumi Shikibu -- Tendai tales: Sangoku denki and the Lotus Sutra commentaries -- The Pure Land proselytizing traditions of Seiganji Temple -- Writing redemption: A history of Seiganji in the Capital -- Climbing the Forbidden Mountain: Nyonin kinsei and the gendered proselytizing traditions of Medieval Japan -- Salvation: Izumi Shikibu and the tale of Jōruri -- Popular preaching and the dissemination of culture.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 62

ISBN:

1929280483
9781929280483
1929280475
9781929280476

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244567176

LCCN:

2008037231

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)