... by peasants, warriors, aristocrats, shoguns, and emperors. It is a story of remarkable success. Thornton frames this detailed story within an analytical structure based on two claims: (1) that Ippen and his successors modeled their movement on traditional hijiri practices, and (2) that the Yugyo-ha leaders...

... Gyoki's campaign, and soliciting agents usually called kanjin hijiri often modeled themselves after Gyoki, an unorthodox popular evangelist before he received the favor of the court. 1 The earliest use of the term in this sense that 3:1089 [doc. 1077 I have found is dated 1072 (Takeuchi 1963-68, ALMS...

... burned it down, of his authority over the warriors who were his personal vassals, and of his legitimacy as a political power by following precedent and supporting shrines and temples. Goodwin focuses on the linchpin of these efforts, the fundraising holy men or kanjin hijiri. High-born or low, ordained...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES had burned it down, of his authority over the warriors who were his personal vassals, and of his legitimacy as a political power by following precedent and supporting shrines and temples. Goodwin focuses on the linchpin of these efforts, the fundraising holy men or kanjin hijiri...

... of the work, introducing the hijiri or ascetic holy man, central figure of many of the tales, and comparing the concern for the individual and the general tone of pessimism in the Hokkegenki with countertendencies in the eighth-century Nihon ryoiki, Japan's first example oizsetsuwa collection...

... a "politics of asceticism" using the example of the hokke hijiri (Lotus ascetics) of medieval Japan, who "by their very retreat into the recesses of the mountains, were responding to and symbolically expressing criticism of the existing institutions of Heian Buddhism" (p. 436). Several authors offer...

... and the Sacred,” represents the volume's most effective concerted effort in local history. All four essays deal exclusively with the Ōbe estate (owned by the powerful Tōdaiji temple) and the monk Chōgen (1121–1206)—an example of the hijiri , a kind of charismatic independent contractor—who financed Tōdaiji's...

..." is characteristically a refuge, a dream zone to which the spirit (or male ego, at any rate) may regress and find respite from the disorienting pressures of life in an era of overwhelmingly rapid progress. Among the nine pieces of modern fiction that Tsuruta takes as examples, some such as Izumi Kyoka's Koya hijiri...

... Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan . Kyoto : Ryukoku University . Karaki Junzō . 1966 . Mujō [Impermanence]. Tokyo : Chikuma shobō , 1967 . Kaufman Laura S. 1992 . “Nature, Courtly Imagery, and Sacred Meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e...

...), and, as Unno explains Shinran, "rebirth is of two kinds now in this life and after death" (p. 341). The ninth essay, by James H. Foard, is a social and historical study of Japanese "wandering holy men" (hijiri) that focuses on Ippen (1239-89) in the Kamakura period. Foard describes the sources of Ippen's...

... with the critical history. Hayami (1973:265) has established that, although some temples had prior histories as sites of Kannon's miracles, virtually all of the thirty-three stations served by the end of the Heian period as residences for groups of holy men (bessho hijiri, in Takagi 1967). These holy men had two...

... with it? Because it interrogates and critiques, ambiguousness instead creates the potential for dialogue and commentary. The importance of this distinction is apparent in Nakamura's treatment of Izumi Kyōka's Kōya Hijiri (1900) as a site of reproducing the homosocial bonds of hygienic discourse with the alluring...

... that originally bound Izumi to sThe exchange takes place in the form of poetry. To Kuya's poem, Gokuraku wa The upright person Naoki hito koso Will certainly reach Mairu nare Paradise: Magareru koto o Stop forever Nagaku todome yo From your crooked behavior! Izumi replies, Hijiri dani If at least you, holy man...

... Railways. Tokyo, anthropologist 61 (June 1959), 405-24. 1957. 6 p. ill., map. . On the concept of "Hijiri" (Holy-man). III. Emergence of the Hijiri-group. Numen 5 Sociology and Social Conditions (1958), 199-232. Continued from 5 (1958), 128-60. ABE, STEVEN KIYOSHI. Nisei personality charac- HATSUMI, REIKO...

.... CJ 25 (Apr. 1958), 241-49. ROBERTSON, C. ALTON. Japan's youth and religion. HERRIGEL, EUGEN. Der Zen-Weg. Munich, JCQ 24 (Apr. 1958), 116-19. Planegg, Barth, 1958. 132 p. ill. ROGGENDORF, JOSEPH. The place of religion in HORI, ICHIRO. On the concept of hijiri [holy-man] modern Japan. JQ 5 (Jan./Mar...