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The Traces of Ippen Shōnin : Healing, Contagion, and the Disputed Legacy of a Wandering Saint

MORROW, Avery, 2024.03.31. <TD32223140>
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The Traces of Ippen Shōnin : Healing, Contagion, and the Disputed Legacy of a Wandering Saint

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Community Code 020
Collection Code 02001
Collection Code 02001070
title The Traces of Ippen Shōnin : Healing, Contagion, and the Disputed Legacy of a Wandering Saint
language eng
creator MORROW, Avery
publisher Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University
JaLCDOI info:doi/10.50873/10861
jtitle Journal of World Buddhist Cultures
issue 7
PAGES 47
PAGEE 65
subject Pure Land Buddhism
subject Kamakura period
subject picture scrolls
subject contagion
subject urine therapy
Issued date 2024.03.31
date 2024.05.17
type nii Journal Article
URI http://hdl.handle.net/10519/10861
textversion publisher
SORTKEY 004
identifier issn(NII) 24355259
abstract Ippen Shōnin (1234–1289) was a preacher of Pure Land Buddhism who traveled throughout the country offering tokens of rebirth in the Pure Land. Although he insisted that he had no personal power to guarantee good rebirth, the historical record seems ambiguous on this point. To analyze this, I first examine stories in the scroll Ippen hijiri-e attributing magical powers to Ippen. Ippen is sometimes described as if people saw him as a miracle worker, with descriptions of purple clouds and flowers falling from the sky, but the Hijiri-e depicts this with a deceptive agnosticism, as if its authors were unclear to whom the miracles ought to be attributed. I then look at two caricature scrolls critical of Ippen which provide records of a man manipulating the people around him. Ippen's ecstatic nembutsu dances are illustrated in an antagonistic way, and he is described as using his own urine as medicine, with the implication that he was defrauding his followers. These caricature scrolls were long considered irrelevant to Japanese scholarship on Ippen, until a radical outside interpretation forced scholars to consider them seriously. Viewed together, the caricatures and the Hijiri-e present Japanese high society conflicted over Ippen's legacy, unsure whether they had witnessed a madman or a god-man.
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