TY - BOOK ID - 36505732 TI - The princess nun : Bunchi, Buddhist reform, and gender in early Edo Japan PY - 2014 SN - 9780674491977 9781684175413 PB - Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Buddhist nuns KW - Bunchi, KW - Enshōji (Nara-shi, Japan) KW - History. KW - J2284.60 KW - J4201.10 KW - J1843 KW - J1800.60 KW - Nuns KW - Women Buddhist priests KW - Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- imperial family (kōshitsu) KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- priesthood (priests, monks, nuns) KW - Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Bunchi Joō, KW - 文智, KW - Enshōji (Nara-shi, Japan) KW - 圓照寺 (Nara-shi, Japan) KW - 円照寺 (Nara-shi, Japan) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36505732 AB - This book tells the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of EnshMji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. ER -