The Cosmology of Male-Male Love in Medieval Japan
Scholars have investigated the Japanese tradition of male-male love that arose in the context of the secular and commercial culture of the early modern era. Less often noted is the role of male-male sexuality within a religious framework. This article sheds light on the unexplored religious dimensio...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Année: 2015, Volume: 4, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 241-271 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Japan
/ Buddhisme
/ Homosexualité
/ Homme
/ Moralité
/ Cosmologie
/ Geschichte 1482
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AG Vie religieuse BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie KCA Monachisme; ordres religieux NBE Anthropologie NCF Éthique sexuelle TH Moyen Âge tardif |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
male-male sexuality
dōji / chigo
Buddhism
medieval Japan
cosmology
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | Scholars have investigated the Japanese tradition of male-male love that arose in the context of the secular and commercial culture of the early modern era. Less often noted is the role of male-male sexuality within a religious framework. This article sheds light on the unexplored religious dimension of medieval Japanese male-male sexuality through an analysis of Ijiri Matakurō Tadasuke’s Nyakudō no kanjinchō (1482) and its Muromachi variant. Both works glorify male-male sexual acts and endorse their proper practice. I suggest that Kanjinchō attempts to perpetuate power relations that maintain the superiority of adult monks over young acolytes. Kanjinchō achieves this through constructing its own cosmology, built on a Buddhist cosmogony, soteriology, a pantheon of divinities and ethical norms, which, in effect, endows homoeroticism with sacrality. My analysis of Kanjinchō provides a nuanced understanding of male-male sexuality in Japanese Buddhism and the ideological context in which the text is embedded. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8349 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of Religion in Japan
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00402007 |