“Care Must be Taken”
In Nara and Heian-period Japan (710–1185), the aged body was commonly described in ways that suggest it was seen as a source of disgust, or even a potential producer of pollution (kegare 穢), a form of defilement that carried important religious connotations, often requiring the attention of ritual s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2015, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-31 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Old person (60-90 years)
/ Body
/ Cultic purity
/ Setsuwa
/ History 700-1100
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia NBE Anthropology TE Middle Ages |
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pollution (kegare)
impurity (fujō)
the aged body (rōtai)
Buddhist tale literature (setsuwa)
tales of auspicious rebirth (ōjōden)
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