THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF DEATH IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN By Karen Margaret Gerhart

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ISBN-10
0824832612
Book Title
The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan
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9780824832612
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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824832612
ISBN-13
9780824832612
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73192669

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
292 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Spirituality, Death & Dying, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Buddhism / Rituals & Practice
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Author
Karen M. Gerhart
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-009200
Dewey Edition
22
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The
Dewey Decimal
294.3/4388095209024
Synopsis
This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it seeks to provide a new understanding of the relationship between the two. Karen Gerhart looks at how these special objects and rituals functioned by analyzing case studies culled from written records, diaries, and illustrated handscrolls, and by examining surviving funerary structures and painted and sculpted images. The work is divided into two parts, beginning with compelling depictions of funerary and memorial rites of several members of the aristocracy and military elite. The second part addresses the material culture of death and analyzes objects meant to sequester the dead from the living: screens, shrouds, coffins, carriages, wooden fences. This is followed by an examination of implements (banners, canopies, censers, musical instruments, offering vessels) used in memorial rituals. The final chapter discusses the various types of and uses for portraits of the deceased, focusing on the manner of their display, the patrons who commissioned them, and the types of rituals performed in front of them. Gerhart delineates the distinction between objects created for a single funeral--and meant for use in close proximity to the body, such as coffins--and those, such as banners, intended for use in multiple funerals and other Buddhist services. Richly detailed and generously illustrated, Gerhart introduces a new perspective on objects typically either overlooked by scholars or valued primarily for their artistic qualities. By placing them in the context of ritual, visual, and material culture, she reveals how rituals and ritual objects together helped to comfort the living and improve the deceased's situation in the afterlife as well as to guide and cement societal norms of class and gender. Not only does her book make a significant contribution in the impressive amount of new information that it introduces, it also makes an important theoretical contribution as well in its interweaving of the interests and approaches of the art historian and the historian of religion. By directly engaging and challenging methodologies relevant to ritual studies, material culture, and art history, it changes once and for all our way of thinking about the visual and religious culture of premodern Japan.
LC Classification Number
BQ5020.G47 2009

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