2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Reexamination of Historic Significance and Backgrounds on the Closed Treatment to Women in Temples

Research Project

Project/Area Number	13837008
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ジェンダー
Research Institution	Shinsyu University
Principal Investigator	USHIYAMA Yoshiyuki Shinsyu University, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (60176659)
Project Period (FY)	2001 – 2003
Keywords	nuns / convents / religious precepts / closed to women / transgression / 服忌令 / 女人禁制 / 女人結界
Research Abstract	In This study, I tride to make clear the historic significance and backgrounds on the closed treatment to women in temples, and the period when it was born by collecting and analyzing legal documents. As the result,-it was became clear that the origin of the closed treatment to women was Buddhist precepts, and it was imported to Japan in the Asuka era with Buddhism. Buddhist were divided between monasteries and convents, therefore, it was never discriminative treatment to women, and it remains widely in East-Asian Buddhistic countries. In Japan, it is classified into three types according to its promoters from the Heian era till Sengoku era.

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