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This article examines one strand in the modern development of the image of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi, 574–622), the semi-mythical statesman portrayed in the Nihon shoki as an ideal ‘sagely kin...

This article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa...

This article examines one strand in the modern development of the image of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi, 574–622), the semi-mythical statesman portrayed in the Nihon shoki as an ideal ‘sagely kin...

This article examines one strand in the modern development of the image of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi, 574–622), the semi-mythical statesman portrayed in the Nihon shoki as an ideal ‘sagely kin...

This article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa...