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* Nihon Shoki, Genkyo Shakuso translation wanted (Gabi Greve)
* New issue of Nihon-bukkyou sougou kenkyuu (Iyanaga Nobumi)
* new members, new profiles: Doron B. Cohen, Keiko Ono, Patricia Sippell, Lori Meeks, Leith Morton, Sachie Noguchi
* Sagoromo in French (Royall Tyler, Michael Watson)
* star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki? (Mark Teeuwen, Iyanaga Nobumi, Herman Ooms, Rolf Giebel)
* Jingu kogo in Japanese historiographies (Melanie Trede)
* star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki? (Noel Pinnington, David Pollack)
* recent publication in Italian (Aldo Tollini)
* Noh on DVD (Ginny Tapley)
* Kinko Sousho (Morgan Pitelka)


Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:19:03 +0900

From: "Gabi Greve" <gokur...@...harenet.ne.jp>

Subject: [pmjs] Nihon Shoki, Genkyo Shakuso translation wanted


Dear Friends,

does anyone know where I may obtain an English translation of the

Nihon shoki (vol.22) & Genkyo shakuso (vol.15)?

They both refer to Shotoku Taishi's encounter with Daruma in Japan.


Please contact me directly if you have an answer.

Thank you so much.

Gabi Greve


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Dr. Gabi Greve

Daruma Museum, Okayama, Japan


Join the Daruma Forum   だるまフォーラム

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/>

Visit the Daruma Museum and Gallery   だるま資料館

<http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/daruma-new1.html>

<http://www.geocities.com/gabigreve2000/index.html>

Enjoy some Musings about Happiness  癒しの俳句

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/>

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:07:28 +0900

From: Iyanaga Nobumi <n-iya...@....bekkoame.ne.jp>

Subject: [pmjs] New issue of Nihon-bukkyou sougou kenkyuu


Hello,


I am glad to announce the publication of the following:


Nihon-bukkyou sougou kenkyuu (Interdisciplinary Studies in Japanese Buddhism), No. 2, 2003:

Contents


Asai, Endoo, "Japanese Buddhism Based on the Lotus Suutra: Variations in the Development of the Central Truths of the Lotus Suutra" 1


Articles

Iyanaga, Nobumi, "On the Tachikawa-ryuu and Shinjoo's Juhoo-yoojin-shuu" 13

Tsuda, Tetsu'ei, "The Worship of Prince Shootoku in Shinran's Last Years and the Formative Arts in the Kantoo Region that Date Back to Japan's Medieval Period" 33

Shimizu, Kunihiko, "A Reconsideration of Jizoo-bosatsu-reigenki" 49

Kudoo, Miwako, "The Thought and Faith of Buddhist Laymen in the Heian Era: On the Focus of Fujiwara no Michinaga's ganmon" 65


Book Reviews

Kadoya, Atsushi, "Mark Teeuwen & Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm" 81

Kakehashi, Nobuaki, "Paul Groner, Ryoogen and Mount Hiei, Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century" 89


Translation and Annotation

Research Group for the Kooshoo-bosatsu-gokyookai-choomonshuu, dir Matsuo, Kenji, "An Annotated Translation of Eizon's Kooshoo-bosatsu-gokyookai-choomonshuu" 97


Report and Regulations


List of Members' Achievements in 2003


Best regards,


Nobumi Iyanaga

Tokyo,

Japan


P.S. I apologize for the cross-posting.

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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:33:25 -0400

From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>

Subject: [pmjs] new members, new profiles


We have been joined by three new members: Doron B. Cohen, Keiko Ono, and Patricia Sippel. Welcome also to the new "read-only" members. Updated profiles have been received from Lori Meeks, Leith Morton, and Sachie Noguchi as well. Many thanks.


Doron B. Cohen <co...@...to.zaq.ne.jp

affiliation = Doshisha University, School of Theology

I graduated from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and received an M.Th. from Doshisha University. Taught at both universities.

Main interests: literature (including Japanese classical and modern literature; poetry of all periods; modern fiction); religion (including Japanese religions, mainly modern Christianity); translation (practical and theoretical). Published some articles and book-reviews in those subjects.

Translate from Japanese into Hebrew (Murakami Haruki's Norwegian Wood; Tanizaki's The Key; poetry).

Current study: translations of the Hebrew Bible into Japanese.


Keiko Ono <k...@...nceton.edu>

affiliation = Princeton University, East Asian Studies

Lecturer in bungo and kambun.

I currently also offer the Reading course for Japanese in Academic Style.


Patricia Sippel <psip...@...oeiwa.ac.jp>

affiliation = Toyo Eiwa University

My research interests are: taxes and fiscal policy in the Tokugawa domain; the history of mining; the history of water management.


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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:46:45 +1000

From: Royall Tyler <ty...@...aca-s.com>

Subject: [pmjs] Sagoromo in French


Has anyone out there ever seen or heard of this French translation of Sagoromo monogatari? It seems to have been published in 4 volumes. 


Histoire du general Sagoromo 

( Sagoromo Monogatari) 

Daini no Sanmi 

Traduction et notes par H. Mongault 

Editions Fernand Pilon, Montreal, 1934, vol. 3, 222p.


I found it thanks to a Google search, in a message on a French discussion list, from 2002. The writer actually had the Vol. 3, given to her by an aged relative, and wanted to know where to find the rest. No one was able to help her


Royall Tyler 

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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:01:29 -0400

From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>

Subject: [pmjs] Re: Sagoromo in French


I've had no luck so far with the French National Library (BNF) or French antiquarian sites but I have been struck by the great number of translations of Russian novelists done by "Henri Mongault" in the 1920s-30s, many still in print. The Library of Congress gives his dates as 1888-1941--and lists no other H. Mongault, and nor does BNF.


Curious to say the least.


www.bnf.fr

http://www.ccfr.bnf.fr/accdis/accdis.htm

http://www.galaxidion.fr/

http://www.chapitre.com/

http://www.livre-rare-book.com/

http://www.frenchculture.org/books/publishers/bookstores.html

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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:02:33 +0200

From: Mark Teeuwen <m.j.teeu...@...t.uio.no>

Subject: [pmjs] star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?


Dear all,


I came across a quite stunning reference in what seems like a quite serious work (Onmyoodoo no koogi, edited by Hayashi Makoto and Koike Jun'ichi, p. 101). In a chapter on astrology in Japan, the author Hosoi Hiroshi mentions a book by Katsumata Takashi, 'Seiza de yomitoku Nihon shinwa' (Ajiabukkusu 2000), which reportedly argues that much of Japanese myth was about constellations. I quote from my secondary source: "For example, the three deities of Sumiyoshi are the three stars in the belt of Orion, used for direction by sailors, and Sarutahiko is Hyades." Hosoi sees some problems with this theory but nevertheless concludes that "some elements in the myths may originally have been about stars, but because [older Japanese astrology] was not systematic it was pushed aside by Chinese astrological thought. However that may be, we have to consider the influence of earlier star lore when considering the transformation of [Chinese] astrology in Japan."


Has anybody seen this book by Katsumata, or come across similar views elsewhere?


Mark Teeuwen

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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:42:05 +0900

From: Iyanaga Nobumi <n-iya...@....bekkoame.ne.jp>

Subject: [pmjs] Re: star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?


Dear Mark,


I didn't know this book, but did some google search. Katsumata Takashi is a professor at the Nagasaki Daigaku, and studies on the mythology of Kojiki and Nihon-shoki, and on the relationship between the texts and illustrations in Otogi-zooshi (<http://www.cosmo-oil.co.jp/kankyo/dagian/37/25.html> where you will find a little article by Katsumata entitled "Usagi to Kaguya-shime").

'Seiza de yomitoku Nihon shinwa' is his only book (by the way, its publisher is Taishuu-kan, "Ajia-bukkusu" is the name of the series).

But there are some articles in collective volumes: Kojiki-gakkai, ed., Kojiki no kamigami, I, Takashina-shoten, 1998; Kojiki-gakkai, ed., Kojiki-ronshuu, Oofuu, 2003; Setsuwa to setsuwa-bungaku no kai, ed., Emaki, muromachi-monogatari to setsuwa, Seibun-doo shoten, 1998. As to 'Seiza de yomitoku Nihon-shinwa', you will find its table of contents at:

<http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4469231649/>

I hope this is of some help for you.


Best regards,


Nobumi Iyanaga

Tokyo,

Japan


On Aug 13, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Mark Teeuwen wrote:


I came across a quite stunning reference in what seems like a quite serious work (Onmyoodoo no koogi, edited by Hayashi Makoto and Koike Jun'ichi, p. 101). In a chapter on astrology in Japan, the author Hosoi Hiroshi mentions a book by Katsumata Takashi, 'Seiza de yomitoku Nihon shinwa' (Ajiabukkusu 2000), which reportedly argues that much of Japanese myth was about constellations. I quote from my secondary source: "For example, the three deities of Sumiyoshi are the three stars in the belt of Orion, used for direction by sailors, and Sarutahiko is Hyades." Hosoi sees some problems with this theory but nevertheless concludes that "some elements in the myths may originally have been about stars, but because [older Japanese astrology] was not systematic it was pushed aside by Chinese astrological thought.

However that may be, we have to consider the influence of earlier star lore when considering the transformation of [Chinese] astrology in Japan."


Has anybody seen this book by Katsumata, or come across similar views elsewhere?


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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:42:44 -0400

From: Herman Ooms <o...@...tory.ucla.edu>

Subject: [pmjs] Re: star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?


name = Herman Ooms <o...@...tory.ucla.edu>

affiliation = History Department, University of California Los Angeles


Self-introduction and response to Mark Teeuwen's query.


My name is Herman Ooms; I teach Tokugawa History at the University of California, Los Angeles. I was encouraged to join pmjs by former students, especially since my current research (previously anchored in what could be argued to be Early-Modern Japan) has shifted to a decidedly pre-modern time period: seventh- and eighth-century Japan, where I am researching, speading a rather wide net, matters related to ideology: ceremonies, kami affairs, Daoist elements and the like.


Someone forwarded me Mark Teeuwen's recent query regarding star cults. I myself had come across the intriguing reference in question and intended to pursue it. Meanwhile I found a book that may contain some information on related matters. It is collection of articles on beliefs associated with stars in Japan, edited by Sano Kenji from Tsukuba, and published by none other than Hokushindo (The Hall of the Great Dipper), which seems to be as good a guarantee of quality information about stars as one might get. It is not exclusively focussed, as the subtitle leaves one to believe, on Myoken.


The full reference is: Sano Kenji hen, Hoshi no shinko  myoken kokuzo (佐野賢治編. 星の信仰  妙見・虚空蔵)

Published/distributed: Tokyo;  Tansuisha; hatsubaimoto Hokushindo, 1994 (東京  渓水社 ; 発売元北辰堂).


--

http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/shsproc?id=BN11470577

(forwarded by Michael Watson)

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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:26:03 +1200

From: Rolf Giebel <rolf.gie...@...adise.net.nz>

Subject: [pmjs] Re: star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?


Mark Teeuwen wrote:


Has anybody seen this book by Katsumata, or come across similar views

elsewhere?


I have not seen Katsumata's book, but the association of the three

deities of Sumiyoshi with three stars is mentioned, for example, in

Kanezashi Shouzou, _Hoshi-uranai hoshi-matsuri_ (Seiabou, 1974) with

reference to a passage in the _Kojiki_. This book by Kanezashi is,

incidentally, a scholarly work based on written sources and is a

mine of information on all matters relating to star lore in premodern Japan.


Rolf Giebel

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:16:18 +0200
From: "Dr. Melanie Trede" <tr...@...sino.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: [pmjs] Jingu kogo in Japanese historiographies

Colleagues,

--Apologies for cross-postings---

Here's a question regarding the role of Jingu kogo in Japanese historiography:
Technically, her name Jingu "kogo" used throughout the references I saw-- refers to
her status as the main consort of an emperor, rather than a tenno in her own right (as
in Suiko tenno, e.g.).
But the Nihon shoki grants this empress the role of an independent ruler as the 15th
generation of emperors in Japan since Jinmu tenno while later histories either follow
this line of argument (e.g. medieval narratives such as the Hachiman legend) or
relegate her to an interim regent between her deceased husband Chuai and her son
Ojin (O^jin). I assume that this latter attitude must have been promoted some time before the
Edo period; (it appears in early/mid-Meiji period records, e.g. a lithograph depicting the
genealogy of emperors, ca. 1890s). Current historical charts which list mythical
emperors omit her status as ruling empress so that the 15th emperor is identified as Ojin.

Does anyone know when exactly this change of her status occurs, whether it caused
any heated (written) debates, and what line of thought it is based on?

Thanks for any help.
Best wishes,
melanie trede
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Tel. +49-6221-54 3969
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From: Noel Pinnington <no...@...rizona.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of pmjs <p...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>
Subject: [pmjs] Re: star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?

I was struck by this reference to stars and constellations, because it seems
to me that Zenchiku's references to the so-called shukushin (宿神), the cult
deity of medieval entertainers, which has generally been thought cognate
with shugoshin (守護神), show that he understood it to have a close
relationship to celestial constellations (i.e. shuku), and also to some
theory of physical identity between the individual human being and the
universe. I have come across this sort of thing in Indian traditions, via
the idea of a cosmic purusha - the self of the universe. Zenchiku draws
moral conclusions from this identity of the body and a higher being, and it
seems to be of a piece with his general project to see performance as a
transformative physical ritual resulting in the perceived identity of the
actor and a higher reality, but I wondered if there were any signs that
other people understood the deity and its cult in a similar way.

Noel Pinnington
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:40:03 -0400
From: David Pollack <poll...@...l.rochester.edu>
Subject: [pmjs] Re: star cults in Kojiki and Nihon shoki?

I have always assumed, no doubt naively, that such practices in Japan most likely originated in and diverged from the rich contemporary Chinese star-cult lore, which ranged from unsystematic local practice to highly systematized texts (only two of the many polarities subsumed under the vague term "Daoism"). Absent real archaeological evidence of pre-Tang Japanese practices, as in many other areas, such Chinese lore would likely constitute an epistemological wall beyond which it would be nearly impossible to see - assuming there was anything to be seen in the first place, and nativizing Japanese archaeology has had its problems of late. For the sort of mainland lore that would likely have been known in Heian-period and later Japan, see Edward H. Schafer, "Pacing the void: T'ang approaches to the stars" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).

David Pollack
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* To avoid mojibake, I have substituted -ou" for the o+circumflex originally used in
* words such as "Dogen" and "S /ed.
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:46:12 +0900
From: "Aldo Tollini" <toll...@...ve.it>
Subject: [pmjs] recent publication in Italian

My name is Aldo Tollini. I teach Japanese Classic Language at the University of Venice, Italy.

I would like to let pmjs members know of my recent publications that may be
of interest.

_Buddha e natura-di-buddha nello Shobogenzo. Testi scelti di Eihei Dogen Zenji_, Ubaldini Editore, Roma, 2004. (Buddha and Buddha-nature in Shobogenzo. A selection of texts of Eihei Dogen Zenji).

It is a traslation in Italian of the following six chapters of Shobogenzo:

Bussho, Inmo, Hossho Yuibutsu yobutsu, Kobusshin, Zenki

It follows a previous publication with the title:

_Pratica e illuminazione nello Shobogenzo. Testi scelti di Eihei Dogen Zenji), Ubaldini Editore, Roma, 2001 (Practice and Illumination in Shobogenzo. A selection of texts of Eihei Dogen Zenji), published three years ago. The chapters translated in this book are:

Zagengi, Zazenshin, Shinjin gakudo, Bendowa, Genjo koan, Daigo, Maka Hannya Haramitsu, Ikka myoju, Sokushin zebutsu, Shoji.

It also contains a translation of Fukan zazengi which is not part of Shobogenzo.

All translations are annotated, commented and carried on with constant reference to the best translations in Western languages and modern Japanese.

Distributor's address
http://www.astrolabio-ubaldini.com/

Yours,

Aldo Tollini
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:26:35 +0000
From: "Ginny Tapley" <ginnytap...@...mail.com>
Subject: [pmjs] Noh on DVD

Dear list

Does anyone know if there are any Noh plays available on video/DVD with English subtitles?

I apologise if I am repeating a request for information that may have been made many times before.

Thanks,
Ginny Tapley
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:47:10 -0700
From: Morgan Pitelka <mpite...@....edu>
Subject: [pmjs] Kinko Sousho

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone know if an index of the contents of the journal _Kinko Sousho_
(Tokugawa Reimeikai) is available online, or elsewhere?

Morgan

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