John M Breen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Breen |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Breen |
| SIGNATURE | BREEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization …
Sannō Matsuri: Fabricating Festivals in Modern Japan
This study of the Sannō Festival at Hiyoshi Taisha in Shiga Prefecture starts from the premise that all festivals reproduce and reinvent themselves over time, obfuscating their origins, typically claiming specious roots in the ancient or mythical past. Firstly, I analyze the Sannō Festival as performed today, drawing on my own festival fieldwork. I then adopt a historical approach, deploying historical sources to recreate the festival in its prem…
Abdication, Succession and Japan's Imperial Future: An Emperor's Dilemma
On 30 April 2019, 86-year old Emperor Akihito made history. He became the first emperor in 200 years to abdicate, yielding the throne to his son. The trigger for this historic moment was an extraordinary event that took place three years earlier. In August 2016, the emperor appeared on NHK and all TV channels to address the nation. His purpose? To intimate his desire to abdicate. The address, of questionable constitutionality, set in motion a deb…
Popes, Bishops and War Criminals: Reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post-war Japan
In November 1945, General McArthur invited two Catholic priests to GHQ to sound them out on a proposal he was poised to implement, namely the razing of Yasukuni, the Tokyo shrine dedicated to the Japanese war dead. The priests were Bruno Bitter, SJ, head of Sophia University, and Patrick Byrne, Maryknoll. Both men quickly declared their opposition. It was, they insisted, the right and duty of citizens everywhere to honour their war dead; Yasukuni…
The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education at the Middle of the Twentieth Century
A New History of Shinto
List of Illustrations vi Conventions and Abbreviations Used in the Text vii Prologue ix 1 An Alternative Approach to the History of 1 2 Kami Shrines, Myths, and Rituals in Premodern Times 24 3 The History of a Shrine: Hie 66 4 The History of a Myth: The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave 129 5 The Daijo-sai: A Shinto Rite of Imperial Accession 168 6 Issues in Contemporary 199 Conclusion 221 Notes 229 References 242 Index 253
Introduction: Death issues in 21st century Japan
The Mainichi broadsheet recently told the story of a Mrs Kawasaki Yoko who had lost her husband to cirrhosis of the liver (Mainichi, 12.3.03: 21). Mrs Kawasaki's approach to her husband's funeral a
Shinto and Christianity: A History of Conflict and Compromise
Edmund Spenser's Exile and the Politics and Poetics of Pastoral
Grâce a un reperage des liens unissant les Eglogues de Virgile, les poemes d'exil d'Ovide, et la poesie et la prose de Spenser, l'A. demontre que les ecrits de ce dernier expriment un aspect neglige de sa vie : le sentiment de l'exil, ressenti en Irlande, en raison de son eloignement de sa patrie, l'Angleterre. De plus, en se referant a la lamentation de Melibee sur son eventuel exil en Grande-Bretagne, ile a la limite du monde, et a la perceptio…
Earnest desires: The Iwakura embassy and Meiji religious policy
The impact of the Iwakura embassy (1871-3) on the course of subsequent Japanese history is worthy of consideration, but it is a question that defies precise quantifying. The issue of Christianity, however, has long appeared to be one area where impact is clearly identifiable: the protests of foreign governments persuaded Iwakura and his embassy to adopt a new, more tolerant approach to foreign religion, which was translated into the historic remo…
Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses
List of Illustrations - Chronology - Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16-19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions S.Kaiser - Early Western-Style Paintings in Japan M.Cooper - New Perspectives on the Christian Prohibition O.Sachiyasu - Acculturation among the Kakure Cirishitan: Some Conclusions from the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto S.Turnbull - Beyond the Prohibition: Ch…
Beyond the Prohibition: Christianity in Restoration Japan
On 4 May 1868 Kido Kōin, the leader of the Chōshū faction in the new imperial government, heard for the first time about the Christian troubles in Urakami village, Nagasaki.1 Kido recorded his 'profound concern' in a diary entry for that day and, with Inoue Kaoru, the bearer of tidings from Nagasaki, drew up plans for an imperial conference to discuss the disposition of the incident.2 The conference, which sought the views of the entire governmen…
The Empirical Eye: "Edmund Spenser's "A View of the Present State of Ireland
Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland has engendered considerable debate concerning its historical, political and aesthetic contexts.1 For example, in a recent edition of History Ireland (Autumn, 1994), Ciaran Brady reviewed Representing Ireland: literature and the origins of conflict 1534-1660, and he pejoratively commented that the contributors focus upon Spenser's View to the exclusion of other texts.2 Brady claims that the c…
The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education at the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Earnest desires: The Iwakura embassy and Meiji religious policy
The impact of the Iwakura embassy (1871-3) on the course of subsequent Japanese history is worthy of consideration, but it is a question that defies precise quantifying. The issue of Christianity, however, has long appeared to be one area where impact is clearly identifiable: the protests of foreign governments persuaded Iwakura and his embassy to adopt a new, more tolerant approach to foreign religion, which was translated into the historic remo…
Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses
List of Illustrations - Chronology - Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16-19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions S.Kaiser - Early Western-Style Paintings in Japan M.Cooper - New Perspectives on the Christian Prohibition O.Sachiyasu - Acculturation among the Kakure Cirishitan: Some Conclusions from the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto S.Turnbull - Beyond the Prohibition: Ch…
The Empirical Eye: "Edmund Spenser's "A View of the Present State of Ireland
Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland has engendered considerable debate concerning its historical, political and aesthetic contexts.1 For example, in a recent edition of History Ireland (Autumn, 1994), Ciaran Brady reviewed Representing Ireland: literature and the origins of conflict 1534-1660, and he pejoratively commented that the contributors focus upon Spenser's View to the exclusion of other texts.2 Brady claims that the c…
Beyond the Prohibition: Christianity in Restoration Japan
On 4 May 1868 Kido Kōin, the leader of the Chōshū faction in the new imperial government, heard for the first time about the Christian troubles in Urakami village, Nagasaki.1 Kido recorded his 'profound concern' in a diary entry for that day and, with Inoue Kaoru, the bearer of tidings from Nagasaki, drew up plans for an imperial conference to discuss the disposition of the incident.2 The conference, which sought the views of the entire governmen…
Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses
List of Illustrations - Chronology - Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16-19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions S.Kaiser - Early Western-Style Paintings in Japan M.Cooper - New Perspectives on the Christian Prohibition O.Sachiyasu - Acculturation among the Kakure Cirishitan: Some Conclusions from the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto S.Turnbull - Beyond the Prohibition: Ch…
Edmund Spenser's Exile and the Politics and Poetics of Pastoral
Grâce a un reperage des liens unissant les Eglogues de Virgile, les poemes d'exil d'Ovide, et la poesie et la prose de Spenser, l'A. demontre que les ecrits de ce dernier expriment un aspect neglige de sa vie : le sentiment de l'exil, ressenti en Irlande, en raison de son eloignement de sa patrie, l'Angleterre. De plus, en se referant a la lamentation de Melibee sur son eventuel exil en Grande-Bretagne, ile a la limite du monde, et a la perceptio…
Earnest desires: The Iwakura embassy and Meiji religious policy
The impact of the Iwakura embassy (1871-3) on the course of subsequent Japanese history is worthy of consideration, but it is a question that defies precise quantifying. The issue of Christianity, however, has long appeared to be one area where impact is clearly identifiable: the protests of foreign governments persuaded Iwakura and his embassy to adopt a new, more tolerant approach to foreign religion, which was translated into the historic remo…
Shinto and Christianity: A History of Conflict and Compromise
Introduction: Death issues in 21st century Japan
The Mainichi broadsheet recently told the story of a Mrs Kawasaki Yoko who had lost her husband to cirrhosis of the liver (Mainichi, 12.3.03: 21). Mrs Kawasaki's approach to her husband's funeral a
A New History of Shinto
List of Illustrations vi Conventions and Abbreviations Used in the Text vii Prologue ix 1 An Alternative Approach to the History of 1 2 Kami Shrines, Myths, and Rituals in Premodern Times 24 3 The History of a Shrine: Hie 66 4 The History of a Myth: The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave 129 5 The Daijo-sai: A Shinto Rite of Imperial Accession 168 6 Issues in Contemporary 199 Conclusion 221 Notes 229 References 242 Index 253
The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education at the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Popes, Bishops and War Criminals: Reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post-war Japan
In November 1945, General McArthur invited two Catholic priests to GHQ to sound them out on a proposal he was poised to implement, namely the razing of Yasukuni, the Tokyo shrine dedicated to the Japanese war dead. The priests were Bruno Bitter, SJ, head of Sophia University, and Patrick Byrne, Maryknoll. Both men quickly declared their opposition. It was, they insisted, the right and duty of citizens everywhere to honour their war dead; Yasukuni…
Abdication, Succession and Japan's Imperial Future: An Emperor's Dilemma
On 30 April 2019, 86-year old Emperor Akihito made history. He became the first emperor in 200 years to abdicate, yielding the throne to his son. The trigger for this historic moment was an extraordinary event that took place three years earlier. In August 2016, the emperor appeared on NHK and all TV channels to address the nation. His purpose? To intimate his desire to abdicate. The address, of questionable constitutionality, set in motion a deb…
Sannō Matsuri: Fabricating Festivals in Modern Japan
This study of the Sannō Festival at Hiyoshi Taisha in Shiga Prefecture starts from the premise that all festivals reproduce and reinvent themselves over time, obfuscating their origins, typically claiming specious roots in the ancient or mythical past. Firstly, I analyze the Sannō Festival as performed today, drawing on my own festival fieldwork. I then adopt a historical approach, deploying historical sources to recreate the festival in its prem…
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization …
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