Add to ORKGThis paper explores the purposes and consequences of the persecution of Buddhism in the early Meiji period (1868-1912). The Meiji government attempted to establish the legitimacy of the new state through the Shinto-based divine status of the emperor while pursuing anti-Buddhism policies and promoting Shinto as the state religion. By reinventing Shinto as an independent religion and ending the Shinto-Buddhism syncretism, the policy of shinbutsu bunri (separation of Shinto and Buddhism) aimed at the elimination of Buddhism's influence on society in order to construct a new political and social order; simultaneously, the state tried to form national unity based on loyalty toward the emperor. As soon as the Separation Edict was ordered in April...
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, Japan, which for almost one hundred years had been frac...
During the Meiji period Japan went through rapid modernization, however, it was a difficult period f...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increa...
In this essay, the religious aspect of the growing nationalism in Japanese society during the ea...
This paper has two primary objectives. The first is to interpret the wider significance of the shin-...
Buddhism was first introduced into Japan in the middle of the sixth century, when several successive...
During Japan’s revolutionary years in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in particular after...
'Bukkyo Seito Doshikai 仏教清徒同志会 was inaugurated in February, 1899 (Meiji 32) in order to part with t...
This dissertation is a critical history of Buddhist thought in Japan from 1868 to 1931. During this ...
The True Pure Land priest Shimaji Mokurai (1838–1911) was at the forefront of the Buddhist struggle ...
Japan experienced drastic economic, political, and social changes during the late nineteenth and ear...
In this paper, I have analyzed the Nishi Honganji sect during the period between July 1937, when the...
The new Buddhism of Meiji Japan, shin bukkyo, was a typically modern manifestation of the traditio...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
The development of Shinto during the Meiji period constitutes one of the most fascinating phenomena ...
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, Japan, which for almost one hundred years had been frac...
During the Meiji period Japan went through rapid modernization, however, it was a difficult period f...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increa...
In this essay, the religious aspect of the growing nationalism in Japanese society during the ea...
This paper has two primary objectives. The first is to interpret the wider significance of the shin-...
Buddhism was first introduced into Japan in the middle of the sixth century, when several successive...
During Japan’s revolutionary years in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in particular after...
'Bukkyo Seito Doshikai 仏教清徒同志会 was inaugurated in February, 1899 (Meiji 32) in order to part with t...
This dissertation is a critical history of Buddhist thought in Japan from 1868 to 1931. During this ...
The True Pure Land priest Shimaji Mokurai (1838–1911) was at the forefront of the Buddhist struggle ...
Japan experienced drastic economic, political, and social changes during the late nineteenth and ear...
In this paper, I have analyzed the Nishi Honganji sect during the period between July 1937, when the...
The new Buddhism of Meiji Japan, shin bukkyo, was a typically modern manifestation of the traditio...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
The development of Shinto during the Meiji period constitutes one of the most fascinating phenomena ...
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, Japan, which for almost one hundred years had been frac...
During the Meiji period Japan went through rapid modernization, however, it was a difficult period f...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increa...