Aspects of Lived Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon – Final Workshop
Saturday, November 13, 2021 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
@ the EFEO/ISEAS Center of Kyoto (+ on Zoom)
29 Kitashirakawa Bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto
Organizers: Martin Nogueira Ramos, Gaétan Rappo & Suzuki Kenkō
Institutions: EFEO, ISEAS & Institute for Research in Humanities (Kyoto University)
Program
10:00 Opening Remarks
Panel 1 Esoteric & Zen Buddhism
10:15 Esoteric Buddhism and This-worldly Benefits: Some thoughts on Dakiniten Mandala (Muromachi Period)
Gaétan Rappo (Doshisha University)
10:45 The Preach of the Manuals: Kana hōgo and the Popular Perception of Zen Doctrines in Early Modern Japan
Didier Davin (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
11:15 Panel Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
Panel 2 Shugendō
11:45 The Historical Strata of the Cult to Sanbō Kōjin in the Scrolls of the Blacksmith God: An Exploration of the Legends Surrounding Mount Gassan and Shugendō in the Edo Period
[in Japanese]
Suzuki Kenkō (Kyoto Seika University)
12:15 The Presence of the Absence: Yudonosan Religious Confraternities and Their Material Culture (Edo Period)
Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University)
12:45 Panel Discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
Panel 3 Christianity/Kirishitan
14:00 Toward a Microhistory of Japanese Christianity under the Ban – A Study of the Second Stage of Repression in Shimabara Domain (1625-1630)
Martin Nogueira Ramos (EFEO)
14:30 Practitioners of the Proscribed Creed: Gender and Motive in the 1827 Kyoto-Osaka Kirishitan Incident
Miyazaki Fumiko (Keisen University)
15:00 Panel Discussion
15:15 Coffee Break
Panel 4 Religion and Secrecy
15:30 Secret Spaces for Amida. The Function of Hidden Space in Rituals and their Doctrinal Background (Edo Period)
Markus Rüsch (Ryukoku University)
16:00Wise Blood and Loca Sacra: Buddhism and Vernacular Religion in Modern and Contemporary Tōhoku
François Lachaud (EFEO)
16:30 Panel Discussion
16:45 Open/informal discussion
Prior registration is required for on-site or online participation
Maximum capacity on-site: 20 people
(For students and scholars)