“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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Main Author: Drott, Edward R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: 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
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
NBE Anthropology
TE Middle Ages
Further subjects:B pollution (kegare) impurity (fujō) the aged body (rōtai) Buddhist tale literature (setsuwa) tales of auspicious rebirth (ōjōden)
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