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Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
Edward R. Drott
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBJF; HBLC1; HBTB; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina . Many of these ""sacred elders"" came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan's senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had once been accorded a level of respect unknown in recent times. In Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan, Edward ... Read more
Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina . Many of these ""sacred elders"" came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan's senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had once been accorded a level of respect unknown in recent times. In Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan, Edward ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824851507
SKU
V9780824851507
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