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Manabu Murakami
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When Kakushinni reported her father Shinran's death, her mother Keishinni wrote back to her that she had had a premonition of his death in her dream that her husband changed himself into the Goddess Kannon. Keishinni's letter seems to mark the turning point in the concept of the "sacred" because representing such a dream in secular words must have been considered sacrilegious before. Eventually the letter served as a political means when Kakunyo justified the hereditary right in the Jodoshinshu cult with the apotheosis of Shinran. Later, Rennyo took advantage of Shinran's sacredness in a more practical way, turning the leader's charismatic figure into the administrative tool of the sect.
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Tetsumichi Hirota
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One way to understand the meaning of the sacred in the Middle Ages is to consider various discourses on the Buddha. So it seems important to find what each religious sect sought after in the Buddha and what symbolic function the Buddhist image had to each of them. I will consider these questions, dealing with discourses such as disputations and dialogues in Middle Age literature. Those discourses concerning the Buddha can be classified according to the opposition between the Shoho-Jisso sect and the Kamakura-Shinbukkyo cult.
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Makoto Yamaguchi
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The phrase "nanitonaku" (sudden, unexpected) in the Middle Ages tales has the function of prefiguring some preternatural phenomena. Strange as it seems, the frequency of its usage is outstanding in the literature of the Middle Ages, especially in the later Heian period. For instance, "nanitonaku" is effectively used in Kankyo-no-Tomo so as to emphasize mysteriousness when coming across the sacred. In Senjusho, it plays a more important role; contact with sacred beings is made possible by rendering verses with the phrase. This style was started by Fujiwara-no-Toshiyori, and then Saigyo developed it. Thus its historical usage will be traced in this essay in the hope of pointing out the narrative pattern in describing the encounter with the sacred.
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Akira Sato
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In this essay I will consider a couple of the dream tales in which Minamoto-no-Yoritomo appeares (one in Manabon-Soga-Monogatari, the other in Heiji-Monogatari), in relation to the background of the legendary story that he was the Saint Rokujurokubu in his previous life. In Enkyobon-Heike-Monogatari Yoritomo is said to be the ruler of Japan, then a composite nation of the sixty-six (rokujuroku) countries. Perhaps this number of countries gives a clue in interpreting the dream tales as well as the legend.
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Tomoko Tani
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Kujo-Kanezane dedicated three grains of rice to Todaiji Temple when it was decided to rebuild the huge Budda statue there. With that dedication, he wrote a petition called "Busshari-Honoganmon." In this petition, Kanezane not only expressed his hope about the reconstruction of the temple, but also he commented on theocratic politics and Emperor Shomu's rulership. I will read this neglected petition, considering the author's position.
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Masaru Nishiyama
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The entry of Nov. 19, 2nd year of Onin in a Zen monk Taikyoku's diary Hekizan-Nichiroku describes "Kamanari-ho" (a collection of techniques for stopping the sound from a hot caldron, a way of fortune-telling). What is interesting, it says cross-dressing is one of the techniques. How does cross-dressing make a caldron sound stop? Besides, does this act have any etymological relation to "okama" (slang for gay)? With these questions in mind, I will consider the transvestism of medieval monks, the sacredness of "okama" and finally hijrah, the fabulous hermaphrodite in India.
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Rikiya Komei
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Although publicans or tax collectors are regarded as sinful beings in the New Testament, such an idea was unfamiliar to Japanese Christians of the sixteenth century. So the missionaries had difficulties in translating the word "publican" into adequate Japanese. The Barret MS substitutes the Portuguese "pubulicano" for it, refering to the Latin publicanus. In other versions, it is translated into "akunin" (sinner) or "zainin" (criminal) so as to emphasize Jesus's mercy towards all sinners.
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Koji Tanaka
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Kuniaki Mitani
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Michiko Nomura
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Hiroyuki Ito
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Sachiyo Kaneko
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Miharu Nakamura
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Hiromitsu Takahashi
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