2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Multi-faceted research on kanto-region legends concerning Shinran, from the viewpoint of Engisei
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20520062
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Religious studies
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Seika University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
鈴木 堅弘 京都精華大学, 共通教育センター
義田 孝裕 ノートルダム女子大学
末松 憲子 京都精華大学, 初年次教育部門
加藤 基樹 立山博物館, 学芸員
橋本 章彦 京都精華大学, 非常勤講師
菊地 政和 花園大学, 非常勤講師
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 宗教史 |
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| Research Abstract |
Researchers paraticipating in this collaborative project havereexamined biographies and legends about the life of Shinran, founder of the JodoShinshu sect of Buddhism, from diverse perspectives that are not limited to ananalysis of the texts as historical documents. More specifically, three of the scholarsdiscuss processes whereby biographies of Shinran such as the Kanto eden came to berepresented in painting(1), the Kawagoe myoden(2) and Uegami no sonzo(4), therebyshedding light on the question of the origins and spread of these legends.
Concerning the background to the transmission of such texts in the early modernera, three other scholars have demonstrated that the legends provided materials thatcame to be used in late Edo gesaku literature(3), as well as the relationship of thelegends to ascetic mountain practices in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture(5) and to thepractice of Utushi reijo in the Shikoku region(6). These studies offer newinterpretations of the reception of legends and biographies of Shinran by scholarsworking outside the field of Jodo-Shinshu Buddhist history.
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