Katja Triplett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4211943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Triplett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Triplett |
| SIGNATURE | TRIPLETT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8434-1608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability history of the early Catholic mission in Japan
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Catholic missionaries in Japan employed men with visual impairment to serve the church. These men had previously been active within the Japanese Buddhist tradition of itinerant lute-playing priests (biwa hōshi). The article compares different disability history approaches to the Japanese Buddhist tradition of blind bards, and examines material first discussed in the Jesuit scholar Ruiz-de-Med…
Material Religion inTranslational Encounters in Early Modern Japan
The paper sheds light on various forms of image appropriation and creation, viewing these as forms of translation processes. In contrast to approaches that highlight visually experienceable »transcendence,« this article examines the culturally determined image concepts and practices of a specific translational encounter. It considers image creation and practices during the active Catholic mission in Japan, beginning in 1549, as well as the practi…
Japan in the Early Modern World
Bridging Religion, State, and Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century
In 1695, the Anglican minister John Evans (?1652–1724), later Bishop of Bangor, gifted various materials to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Among the gifts were the 1596 Jesuit mission print of the Japanese translation of the Contemptus mundi , as well as a miscellany, rediscovered in 2021, containing various samples of Asian scripts, and a scroll with a horoscope in Bengali, now deemed to be lost. Evans must have obtained these written materials…
Early Modern Japanese Talismanic Practices for Treating Horses
This article provides rare insights into day-to-day horse healing medicine that makes use of talismans (gofu 護符) and amulets (omamori 御守り), by introducing and analyzing an early modern undated manuscript titled Uma 馬, “Horse.” An unknown horse healer produced the manuscript over the course of some years, presumably in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The manuscript, which is part of David Ramey’s private collection, has slightly more than tw…
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Introduction
Internationalisation du débatLa décolonisation des disciplines académiques et des collections est un sujet de discussion international et interdisciplinaire intense depuis quelques temps déjà. Il s’agit également d’un sujet hautement politique et d’un débat public. Nous l’abordons sous différents angles et souhaitons souligner l’importance pour les collections universitaires de faire face à leur héritage colonial.En fin de compte, ce qui est perç…
Introducción
Internacionalizando el debateLa descolonización de disciplinas académicas y colecciones ha sido tema de intensa discusión internacional e interdisciplinaria durante algún tiempo. También es un tema altamente político y de debate público. Abordamos este tema desde diferentes perspectivas y queremos subrayar la importancia de que las colecciones universitarias también enfrenten su herencia colonial.Al final, lo que cuenta como objeto de procedencia…
Introduction
Internationalizing the debateDecolonizing academic disciplines and collections has been a topic of intense international and interdisciplinary discussion for some time now. It is also a highly political topic and one of public discourse. We approach it from different perspectives and want to underline how important it is that university collections also face up to their colonial heritage.In the end, what finally counts as an object of colonial pr…
Potency by Name
Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba'i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context. The Scroll of Equine Medicine (Ba'i sōshi emaki 馬医草紙絵 巻, 1267) is an enigmatic picture scroll held by the Tokyo National Museum. It extends to more than six meters and contains images of ten divine fi…
Einführung
Das Themenfeld Ernährung und Religion ist traditionell von Fragen nach Speisevorschriften, rituellen Speiseopfern und Fastenpraktiken dominiert, hat aber aktuell im Kontext von globalen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatten an neuer Relevanz gewonnen. Die Einführung in den Themenschwerpunkt problematisiert die Bedeutung normierter Ernährungskonzepte für die Religionswissenschaft und gibt einen kursorischen Einblick in Geschichte und Stand der Forschung. Neben …
Veganismus und pflanzenorientierte Ernährung in der aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte als Themen der Religionswissenschaft
In der aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte treffen wir häufig die Forderung nach einer pflanzlich orientierten Ernährungsweise an. Pflanzlich orientierte Ernährungsstile sind laut aktuellen Studien ein Schlüssel zur Nachhaltigkeit, weil der Konsum von Produkten tierischen Ursprungs einer der „Big-Five“-Treiber des Klimawandels ist. Ist das Verhindern der globalen Klimakatastrophe tatsächlich das zentrale Motiv für die Entscheidung, sich vegan zu ern…
Putting a Face on the Pathogen and Its Nemesis
In medieval Japan, so-called “four boundary demarcation rituals” were believed to turn invisible epidemic disease-bringing “demons” into visible beings. Making the demons visible, at least to the ritual experts involved, was a way of controlling them. The demons had a dual nature in that they harmed humans but could also become powerful protectors against disease and other calamities. This essay introduces the elaborate ritual culture of yin-yang…
Pediatric Care and Buddhism in Premodern Japan
The Indian idea of supernatural entities, or “demons,” that harm children found its way into Chinese translations of Buddhist texts. Through Buddhism, the idea also reached premodern Japan. Given that medicine in premodern Japan was predominantly practiced by “secular” court physicians and Buddhist monastic doctors, one might assume that court physicians focused on childhood diseases with “natural” causes, while Buddhist monastics concentrated on…
Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion
This special section of Asian Medicine brings together three scholars of the history of healing practices and medicine in premodern Asian societies to explore whether and how emic boundaries between religion and medicine were drawn in different historical contexts. In this introduction, we use the example of ancient Japan in an attempt to show how first steps towards a separation of religion and medicine can be identified, even when they have not…
Gallery | Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting
The Japanese Contemptus mundi (1596) of the Bibliotheca Augusta
The duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, August the Younger (1579–1666), assembled one of the largest collections of books and manuscripts in seventeenth-century Europe at his residence in Wolfenbüttel, creating a world-renowned library that is today known as the Bibliotheca Augusta. In about 1662, the duke purchased an unusual 1596 print in Latin script of a religious work offered to him as Tractatus de contemptu mundi in lingua Japonica . It was include…
Sondersektion
For mothers and sisters
While married female members of the Japanese aristocracy followed the ideal of bearing children, female Buddhist novices and ordained women, often belonging to the aristocracy themselves, had to abstain from sexual activity and reproduction in accordance with the ordination rules. Infertility was considered with disdain by the first group, whereas not bearing children was the utmost expression of leading a virtuous life for the second group. Howe…
The Discourse on wa or Harmony in Contemporary Japanese Religions and Society
Museality as a Matrix of the Production, Reception, and Circulation of Knowledge Concerning Religion
Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified in the present paper by linking it to the history and dynamics of knowledge. Museums as institutions and cultural practice play a crucial role in the orders and politics of knowledge about religion in Europe. By means of dif…
Localizing Paradise
For mothers and sisters
While married female members of the Japanese aristocracy followed the ideal of bearing children, female Buddhist novices and ordained women, often belonging to the aristocracy themselves, had to abstain from sexual activity and reproduction in accordance with the ordination rules. Infertility was considered with disdain by the first group, whereas not bearing children was the utmost expression of leading a virtuous life for the second group. Howe…
Localizing Paradise
Museality as a Matrix of the Production, Reception, and Circulation of Knowledge Concerning Religion
Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified in the present paper by linking it to the history and dynamics of knowledge. Museums as institutions and cultural practice play a crucial role in the orders and politics of knowledge about religion in Europe. By means of dif…
The Discourse on wa or Harmony in Contemporary Japanese Religions and Society
Sondersektion
For mothers and sisters
While married female members of the Japanese aristocracy followed the ideal of bearing children, female Buddhist novices and ordained women, often belonging to the aristocracy themselves, had to abstain from sexual activity and reproduction in accordance with the ordination rules. Infertility was considered with disdain by the first group, whereas not bearing children was the utmost expression of leading a virtuous life for the second group. Howe…
The Japanese Contemptus mundi (1596) of the Bibliotheca Augusta
The duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, August the Younger (1579–1666), assembled one of the largest collections of books and manuscripts in seventeenth-century Europe at his residence in Wolfenbüttel, creating a world-renowned library that is today known as the Bibliotheca Augusta. In about 1662, the duke purchased an unusual 1596 print in Latin script of a religious work offered to him as Tractatus de contemptu mundi in lingua Japonica . It was include…
Gallery | Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting
Pediatric Care and Buddhism in Premodern Japan
The Indian idea of supernatural entities, or “demons,” that harm children found its way into Chinese translations of Buddhist texts. Through Buddhism, the idea also reached premodern Japan. Given that medicine in premodern Japan was predominantly practiced by “secular” court physicians and Buddhist monastic doctors, one might assume that court physicians focused on childhood diseases with “natural” causes, while Buddhist monastics concentrated on…
Distinctions and Differentiations between Medicine and Religion
This special section of Asian Medicine brings together three scholars of the history of healing practices and medicine in premodern Asian societies to explore whether and how emic boundaries between religion and medicine were drawn in different historical contexts. In this introduction, we use the example of ancient Japan in an attempt to show how first steps towards a separation of religion and medicine can be identified, even when they have not…
Putting a Face on the Pathogen and Its Nemesis
In medieval Japan, so-called “four boundary demarcation rituals” were believed to turn invisible epidemic disease-bringing “demons” into visible beings. Making the demons visible, at least to the ritual experts involved, was a way of controlling them. The demons had a dual nature in that they harmed humans but could also become powerful protectors against disease and other calamities. This essay introduces the elaborate ritual culture of yin-yang…
Einführung
Das Themenfeld Ernährung und Religion ist traditionell von Fragen nach Speisevorschriften, rituellen Speiseopfern und Fastenpraktiken dominiert, hat aber aktuell im Kontext von globalen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatten an neuer Relevanz gewonnen. Die Einführung in den Themenschwerpunkt problematisiert die Bedeutung normierter Ernährungskonzepte für die Religionswissenschaft und gibt einen kursorischen Einblick in Geschichte und Stand der Forschung. Neben …
Veganismus und pflanzenorientierte Ernährung in der aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte als Themen der Religionswissenschaft
In der aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte treffen wir häufig die Forderung nach einer pflanzlich orientierten Ernährungsweise an. Pflanzlich orientierte Ernährungsstile sind laut aktuellen Studien ein Schlüssel zur Nachhaltigkeit, weil der Konsum von Produkten tierischen Ursprungs einer der „Big-Five“-Treiber des Klimawandels ist. Ist das Verhindern der globalen Klimakatastrophe tatsächlich das zentrale Motiv für die Entscheidung, sich vegan zu ern…
Potency by Name
Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba'i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context. The Scroll of Equine Medicine (Ba'i sōshi emaki 馬医草紙絵 巻, 1267) is an enigmatic picture scroll held by the Tokyo National Museum. It extends to more than six meters and contains images of ten divine fi…
Introduction
Internationalisation du débatLa décolonisation des disciplines académiques et des collections est un sujet de discussion international et interdisciplinaire intense depuis quelques temps déjà. Il s’agit également d’un sujet hautement politique et d’un débat public. Nous l’abordons sous différents angles et souhaitons souligner l’importance pour les collections universitaires de faire face à leur héritage colonial.En fin de compte, ce qui est perç…
Introducción
Internacionalizando el debateLa descolonización de disciplinas académicas y colecciones ha sido tema de intensa discusión internacional e interdisciplinaria durante algún tiempo. También es un tema altamente político y de debate público. Abordamos este tema desde diferentes perspectivas y queremos subrayar la importancia de que las colecciones universitarias también enfrenten su herencia colonial.Al final, lo que cuenta como objeto de procedencia…
Introduction
Internationalizing the debateDecolonizing academic disciplines and collections has been a topic of intense international and interdisciplinary discussion for some time now. It is also a highly political topic and one of public discourse. We approach it from different perspectives and want to underline how important it is that university collections also face up to their colonial heritage.In the end, what finally counts as an object of colonial pr…
Material Religion inTranslational Encounters in Early Modern Japan
The paper sheds light on various forms of image appropriation and creation, viewing these as forms of translation processes. In contrast to approaches that highlight visually experienceable »transcendence,« this article examines the culturally determined image concepts and practices of a specific translational encounter. It considers image creation and practices during the active Catholic mission in Japan, beginning in 1549, as well as the practi…
Japan in the Early Modern World
Bridging Religion, State, and Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century
In 1695, the Anglican minister John Evans (?1652–1724), later Bishop of Bangor, gifted various materials to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Among the gifts were the 1596 Jesuit mission print of the Japanese translation of the Contemptus mundi , as well as a miscellany, rediscovered in 2021, containing various samples of Asian scripts, and a scroll with a horoscope in Bengali, now deemed to be lost. Evans must have obtained these written materials…
Early Modern Japanese Talismanic Practices for Treating Horses
This article provides rare insights into day-to-day horse healing medicine that makes use of talismans (gofu 護符) and amulets (omamori 御守り), by introducing and analyzing an early modern undated manuscript titled Uma 馬, “Horse.” An unknown horse healer produced the manuscript over the course of some years, presumably in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The manuscript, which is part of David Ramey’s private collection, has slightly more than tw…
Anonymous
Disability history of the early Catholic mission in Japan
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Catholic missionaries in Japan employed men with visual impairment to serve the church. These men had previously been active within the Japanese Buddhist tradition of itinerant lute-playing priests (biwa hōshi). The article compares different disability history approaches to the Japanese Buddhist tradition of blind bards, and examines material first discussed in the Jesuit scholar Ruiz-de-Med…
History (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Buddhism (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works)