TY - BOOK ID - 13847569 TI - The material culture of death in medieval Japan PY - 2009 SN - 9780824832612 0824832612 082483755X 0824868889 144167117X PB - Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press DB - UniCat KW - Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies KW - History KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies, Lamaist KW - Buddhism KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Rituals KW - J1846 KW - J4157 KW - J1800.40 KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- rituals and practices -- funerals, offerings and sacrifices to departed spirits KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13847569 AB - 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.--from publisher description. ER -