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Shotoku - Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition (Hardcover)
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Shotoku - Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition (Hardcover)
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Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese
Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The
cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the
most important phenomena in early Japanese religion. This book
examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the
roughly 200 years following his deatha period that saw a series of
revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion.
Michael Como highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship
groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom
of Silla. He skillfully places these groups in their socio-cultural
context and convincingly demonstrates their pivotal role in
bringing continental influences to almost every aspect of
government and community ideology in Japan. He argues that these
immigrant kinship groups were not only responsible for the
construction of the Shotoku cult, but were also associated with the
introduction of the continental systems of writing, ritual, and
governance.
By comparing the ancestral legends of these groups to the Shotoku
legend corpus and Imperial chronicles, Como shows that these
kinship groups not only played a major role in the formation of the
Japanese Buddhist tradition, they also to a large degree shaped the
paradigms in terms of which the Japanese Imperial cult and the
nation of Japan were conceptualized and created. Offering a
radically new picture of the Asuko and Nara period (551794), this
innovative work will stimulate new approaches to the study of early
Japanese religion focusing on the complex interactions among ideas
of ethnicity, lineage, textuality, and ritual.
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