Narratives of sorrow and dignity : Japanese women, pregnancy loss, and modern rituals of grieving /
Here, Bardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on mizuko kuyo, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Approaching the Worlds of Mizuko. Mizuko Kuyo: Memorial Services for Child Loss in Japan ; Architectural, Iconographic, Doctrinal Features of Mizuko Kuyo ; Situating the Rites of Mourning: Two Temples and a Variety of Visitors ; The Phenomena of Mizuko Kuyo: Responses to Pregnancy Loss.
- Part 2: Deciphering the Worlds of Pregnancy Loss: Women, Men, and the Unborn. Japanese Woman as Housewife, Mother, and Worker: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1868-2010) ; Ancestors, Angry Spirits, and the Unborn: Caring for the Dead on the Path to Ancestorhood ; Mothers, Society, and Pregnancy Loss: Rethinking the Meaning of Nurture.
- Part 3: Relating Mizuko Rei to the Larger Worlds of Profound Loss ; The Revival of Death, the Rebirth of Grieving, and Ways of Mourning ; Rituals of Affliction; An Invitation to Sobriety.
- Appendices. Adashino Nenbutsuji, English language text of Mizuko kuyo service ; Yvonne Rand, Jizo: Protector of Travelers into and out of Life ; Sai-no-kawara text, tr. of Manabe Kosai. Jizo-bosatsu no kenkyu [Research on Jizo Bodhisattva]. Kyoto: Sanmitsudo shoten, 1960 ; Yasuo Sakakibara, Economic Development and Temple Economics in Japan.