Religion and the imperial body politic of Japan
This article offers a religious history of the Japanese emperor's body as it was discursively constructed, visually imagined, and ritually reinforced as the larger body politic. It demonstrates that the Shinto-inflected notion of the imperial body politic (J. kokutai) technically only emerged d...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Religious body imagined, part II" |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Equinox Publishing
2021
|
| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-68 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tenno
/ Body
/ Kokutai
/ Buddhism
/ History 710-1945
|
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism BN Shinto KBM Asia NBC Doctrine of God RA Practical theology TA History |
| Further subjects: | B
Emperor
B Buddhism B body politic B Japan |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000caa a22000002 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 1819764516 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20230103130512.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 221024s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1558/bar.16248 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)1819764516 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)KXP1819764516 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rda | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 084 | |a 0 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |e VerfasserIn |0 (DE-588)1035391708 |0 (DE-627)747802459 |0 (DE-576)379014513 |4 aut |a Winfield, Pamela D. | |
| 109 | |a Winfield, Pamela D. | ||
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Religion and the imperial body politic of Japan |
| 246 | 1 | |i Rubrikentitel |a "Special Issue: Religious body imagined, part II" | |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a 2 |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2021 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a This article offers a religious history of the Japanese emperor's body as it was discursively constructed, visually imagined, and ritually reinforced as the larger body politic. It demonstrates that the Shinto-inflected notion of the imperial body politic (J. kokutai) technically only emerged during the early modern period in Japan. It therefore draws attention instead to the important premodern Buddhist precursors that first equated the emperor's own body with the greater state polity of Japan. Buddhist teachings about the world-body of Buddhahood (dharmakaya), the monumental bronze Buddha body of Birushana in Nara, and Buddhist ritual activity throughout Japan's provincial temple system all helped to construct Emperor Shomu (r. 710-56) as the all-protecting head of the family-state (kokka). Later esoteric Buddhist teachings about "becoming a Buddha in this very body" (sokushin jobutsu) and elaborate state-protecting rites performed before Kukai's (744-835) multi-headed and multi-armed figures all helped to protect the body of the emperor (or his clothes), and by extension, the health and wellbeing of the country at large. Finally, modern reformulations such as Kiyozawa Manshi’s (1863-1903) "hand metaphor"and Minobe Tatsukichi's (1873-1948) "organ theory of government" continued to resonate with these pre-existing Buddhist corporeal tropes, as well as with newly imported Western philosophical constructs. As a result, this premodern Buddhist analysis of the emperor's rhetorical, artistic, and ceremonial body-state demonstrates the centrality of the human body in imagining religious authority and political power in Japan. | ||
| 601 | |a Religion | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Buddhism | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Japan | |
| 650 | 4 | |a body politic | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Emperor | |
| 652 | |a AD:AG:BL:BN:KBM:NBC:RA:TA | ||
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |d s |0 (DE-588)4232704-0 |0 (DE-627)104539461 |0 (DE-576)210366095 |2 gnd |a Tenno |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |d s |0 (DE-588)4031575-7 |0 (DE-627)106264915 |0 (DE-576)208993282 |2 gnd |a Körper |
| 689 | 0 | 2 | |d s |0 (DE-588)4323078-7 |0 (DE-627)128104341 |0 (DE-576)211241695 |2 gnd |a Kokutai |
| 689 | 0 | 3 | |d s |0 (DE-588)4008690-2 |0 (DE-627)106366823 |0 (DE-576)20887772X |2 gnd |a Buddhismus |
| 689 | 0 | 4 | |q z |2 gnd |a Geschichte 710-1945 |
| 689 | 0 | |5 (DE-627) | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Body and religion |d Sheffield : Equinox Publishing, 2017 |g 5(2021), 1, Seite 45-68 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)1011262681 |w (DE-600)2917307-3 |w (DE-576)497526840 |x 2057-5831 |7 nnns |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:5 |g year:2021 |g number:1 |g pages:45-68 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.16248 |x Resolving-System |z lizenzpflichtig |3 Volltext |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BAR/article/view/16248 |x Verlag |z lizenzpflichtig |3 Volltext |
| 936 | u | w | |d 5 |j 2021 |e 1 |h 45-68 |
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| ELC | |a 1 | ||
| ITA | |a 1 |t 1 | ||
| LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
| LOK | |0 001 420126632X | ||
| LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
| LOK | |0 004 1819764516 | ||
| LOK | |0 005 20230103130512 | ||
| LOK | |0 008 221024||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
| LOK | |0 040 |a DE-Tue135 |c DE-627 |d DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
| LOK | |0 852 |a DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
| LOK | |0 935 |a ixzs |a ixzo | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442043016 |a AD | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442043229 |a AG | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442043644 |a BL | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442043709 |a BN | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 144204893X |a KBM | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442051507 |a NBC | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442053003 |a RA | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442053402 |a TA | ||
| ORI | |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw | ||
| REL | |a 1 | ||
| STA | 0 | 0 | |a Body,Body,Human body in literature,Material body,Physical body,Buddhism,Buddhism,Kokutai,Tenno,Emperor |
| STB | 0 | 0 | |a Buddhisme,Bouddhisme,Corps,Corps,Corps,Kokutai,Tenno |
| STC | 0 | 0 | |a Budismo,Budismo,Cuerpo,Cuerpo,Cuerpo,Kokutai,Tenno |
| STD | 0 | 0 | |a Buddhismo <motivo>,Buddhismo,Buddismo,Buddismo,Buddismo (motivo),Buddismo,Corpo,Corpo,Corpo,Kokutai,Tenno,Imperatore del Giappone,Imperatore del Giappone |
| STE | 0 | 0 | |a 佛教,天皇,物体,身体,身体,躯体,躯干,躯体,躯干 |
| STF | 0 | 0 | |a 佛教,国家政权,天皇,物體,身體,身體,軀體,軀干,軀體,軀干 |
| STG | 0 | 0 | |a Budismo,Budismo,Corpo,Corpo,Corpo,Kokutai,Tenno |
| STH | 0 | 0 | |a Буддизм (мотив),Буддизм,Кокутай,Тело (физика),Тело (мотив),Тело,Тэнно,Император Японии |
| STI | 0 | 0 | |a Βουδισμός (μοτίβο),Βουδισμός,Κοκουτάι,Kokutai,Σώμα (φυσική),Σώμα (μοτίβο),Σώμα,Τέννο,Ιάπωνας αυτοκράτορας,Tenno |
| SUB | |a REL | ||
| SYE | 0 | 0 | |a Empire du Japon,Nihon-koku,Zen-Nihon,Zenkoku,Nippon,Japon,Dainihon,Dainippon,Nihon,Nippon,Yapan,Japão,Nihon |
| SYG | 0 | 0 | |a Kaiser von Japan , Materieller Körper,Körperbild,Mensch,Menschlicher Körper,Corpus , Buddhism,Zen-Buddhismus |
| TIM | |a 100007100101_100019451231 |b Geschichte 710-1945 | ||