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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.

Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies --- History --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Lamaist --- Buddhism --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Rituals --- J1846 --- J4157 --- J1800.40 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- rituals and practices -- funerals, offerings and sacrifices to departed spirits --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600)

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"Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, class, and materiality, and the importance of objects as active participant in rituals, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in many new and interactive ways and constitute a pioneering attempt to combine ritual and gendered analysis with the study of objects"--

Anthropology of religion --- Anthropology of religion. --- Buddhismus. --- Religious articles --- Religious articles. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual. --- Women and religion. --- Women --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Religious life --- Religious life. --- Social life and customs. --- Börngen, ... --- Honʼyaku iin shachū --- To 1868. --- Japan --- Japan. --- Religious life and customs. --- Religious aspects --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Articles, Religious --- Objects, Religious --- Religious art objects --- Religious goods --- Religious objects --- Sacred objects --- Religion --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Woman (Theology) --- Theological anthropology --- J1714 --- J4176.80 --- J1840 --- Japan: Religion in general -- sociology of religion --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- rituals and practices

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