Анна Андреева
Biographic Data
| ID | 6923250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Анна Андреева |
| GIVEN NAMES | Анна |
| FAMILY NAME | Андреева |
| SIGNATURE | АНДРЕЕВА А |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5459-5279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan
This chapter considers the process and impact of adopting South and East Asian embryological notions and descriptions of fetal life into the cosmological accounts and ritual sources from early and medieval Japan. A plethora of different terms describing the stages of a fetus developing in the mother’s womb was known in both India and China, where they came to be adopted in the earliest medical or religious writings, produced by Buddhists, Daoists…
Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, written by Amy Paris Langenberg
Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O'Neal
Reviewed by: Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O'Neal Anna Andreeva (bio) Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art. By Halle O'Neal. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge MA, 2018. xviii, 292 pages. $75.00. Perhaps there is no shame in admitting that even a scholar of medieval Japan can easily find the jeweled pagoda mandalas (kinji hōtō mandara) perplexing and overwhelming…
Buddhist Temple Networks in Medieval Japan: Daigoji, Mt. Kōya, and the Miwa Lineage
The intellectual links between medieval esoteric temples and localized Shingon movements are still far from being well understood. Although a part of education at major monastic complexes such as Daigoji and Mt. Kōya, transmissions of esoteric theories were not uniform and varied depending on their recipients’ social status. A comparative reading of the Yugikyō transmissions imparted by the abbot Jikken of Kongōōin to his official disciple Dōhan …
Charlotte von Verschuer, Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan
Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by the French scholar Charlotte von Verschuer is a much anticipated addition to the Needham Research Institute Monograph Series. Translated
Y ijiang Z hong . The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
The newly established Bloomsbury Shinto Studies book series continues to yield interesting research cases. Until recently in the Western imagination, Shinto was perceived as a millennium-old unbroken tradition of worshipping kami (local deities)—a religious monolith, mysterious, unique, and belonging solely to Japan. However, the arrival of academic studies investigating different aspects of kami worship is steadily chipping away at the older nar…
A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen
Reviewed by: A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen Anna Andreeva (bio) A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital. By Mark Teeuwen and John Breen. Bloomsbury, London, 2017. xii, 302 pages. $114.00, cloth; $39.95, paper; $102.60, E-book. Mark Teeuwen and John Breen's new coauthored book on the social history of the Ise shrines comes out at an interesting time, when the shrines are once again in…
Explaining Conception to Women
Recent findings by Japanese and Western scholars specializing in Buddhism have cast light on a variety of theories of conception and gestation that were known within the religious and cultural milieu of medieval Japan. In the early fourteenth century, these ideas about the origins of life and the human body were incorporated not only into the esoteric Buddhist rituals and theological treatises that shaped the religious landscape of medieval Japan…
Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan
Yoshihiro Nikaido: Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction
This contribution offers a review ofYoshihiro Nikaido: Asian Folk Religion and Cultural InteractionTaipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2015.Göttingen:V&R unipress, 2015. 230 pages, with numerous figures.hardcover € [D] 49,99/€ [A] 51,40, ISBN 978-3-8471-0485-8
Childbirth in aristocratic households of Heian Japan
This paper focuses on childbirth in Japan's aristocratic households during the Heian period (794-1185). Drawing on various sources, including court diaries, visual sources, literary records, and Japan's first medical collection, with its assortment of gynaecological and obstetric prescriptions, as well as Buddhist and other ritual texts, this short excursion into the cultural history of childbirth offers an insight into how childbirth was experie…
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, personality, and literary production in the life of Nun AbutsuCHRISTINA Laffin
Christina Laffin's new book focuses on the pursuits of a medieval Japanese woman, Nun Abutsu (1225–1283), who is unique in that during her life she transcended ‘gender and genre barriers by writing
The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern Japan
The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity:A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern Japan Anna Andreeva (bio) Mt. Miwa 三輪, situated in the southeastern corner of the Yamato plain in what is now Nara prefecture, is one of Japan's most important cultic sites. Both Nihon shoki 日本書紀 and Kojiki 古事記 describe the "kami of Miwa" as being a deity closely connected to Izumo and feared by early Yamato rulers. After the kami of Ise was ado…
Medieval Shinto: New Discoveries and Perspectives 1
Until recently, historical materials that might shed light on the diverse practices and beliefs surrounding the worship of Japanese native deities, kami, in the medieval period were largely unavailable for academic study. Some still remain hidden in temple treasuries or private collections, waiting to be discovered. ‘Medieval Shinto’ is thus a relatively new field of enquiry, but a fruitful and promising one as well. The current revival of this f…
The Origins of the Miwa Lineage
Des documents historiques suggèrent que, vers le XIIIe siècle, le Mont Miwa, dans la partie sud-est de la plaine de Yamato, devint le centre d'un culte de kami. Plus tard, ce culte sera connu comme la « lignée du shintō de Miwa » ou le « Miwaryū shintō ». Les précédentes études japonaises sur ce sujet ont souvent affirmé que des rituels invoquant les kami ont commencé dès l'année 1266. De plus, des sources datant de la fin du Moyen Âge tardif et …
Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa
By the eighth century, Mount Miwa, the most important site of worship connected to the early Yamato ruling houses in prehistoric times, had gradually become "de-sacralized" and "forgotten" by imperial family in favor of Ise. In the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it was rediscovered and reinvented by Buddhist lineages who aimed to restore the proper monastic order in a time of mappō and to protect the state and the "divine land"…
A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen
Reviewed by: A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen Anna Andreeva (bio) A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital. By Mark Teeuwen and John Breen. Bloomsbury, London, 2017. xii, 302 pages. $114.00, cloth; $39.95, paper; $102.60, E-book. Mark Teeuwen and John Breen's new coauthored book on the social history of the Ise shrines comes out at an interesting time, when the shrines are once again in…
Childbirth in aristocratic households of Heian Japan
This paper focuses on childbirth in Japan's aristocratic households during the Heian period (794-1185). Drawing on various sources, including court diaries, visual sources, literary records, and Japan's first medical collection, with its assortment of gynaecological and obstetric prescriptions, as well as Buddhist and other ritual texts, this short excursion into the cultural history of childbirth offers an insight into how childbirth was experie…
The Origins of the Miwa Lineage
Des documents historiques suggèrent que, vers le XIIIe siècle, le Mont Miwa, dans la partie sud-est de la plaine de Yamato, devint le centre d'un culte de kami. Plus tard, ce culte sera connu comme la « lignée du shintō de Miwa » ou le « Miwaryū shintō ». Les précédentes études japonaises sur ce sujet ont souvent affirmé que des rituels invoquant les kami ont commencé dès l'année 1266. De plus, des sources datant de la fin du Moyen Âge tardif et …
Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa
By the eighth century, Mount Miwa, the most important site of worship connected to the early Yamato ruling houses in prehistoric times, had gradually become "de-sacralized" and "forgotten" by imperial family in favor of Ise. In the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it was rediscovered and reinvented by Buddhist lineages who aimed to restore the proper monastic order in a time of mappō and to protect the state and the "divine land"…
The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern Japan
The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity:A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern Japan Anna Andreeva (bio) Mt. Miwa 三輪, situated in the southeastern corner of the Yamato plain in what is now Nara prefecture, is one of Japan's most important cultic sites. Both Nihon shoki 日本書紀 and Kojiki 古事記 describe the "kami of Miwa" as being a deity closely connected to Izumo and feared by early Yamato rulers. After the kami of Ise was ado…
Medieval Shinto: New Discoveries and Perspectives 1
Until recently, historical materials that might shed light on the diverse practices and beliefs surrounding the worship of Japanese native deities, kami, in the medieval period were largely unavailable for academic study. Some still remain hidden in temple treasuries or private collections, waiting to be discovered. ‘Medieval Shinto’ is thus a relatively new field of enquiry, but a fruitful and promising one as well. The current revival of this f…
Childbirth in aristocratic households of Heian Japan
This paper focuses on childbirth in Japan's aristocratic households during the Heian period (794-1185). Drawing on various sources, including court diaries, visual sources, literary records, and Japan's first medical collection, with its assortment of gynaecological and obstetric prescriptions, as well as Buddhist and other ritual texts, this short excursion into the cultural history of childbirth offers an insight into how childbirth was experie…
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, personality, and literary production in the life of Nun AbutsuCHRISTINA Laffin
Christina Laffin's new book focuses on the pursuits of a medieval Japanese woman, Nun Abutsu (1225–1283), who is unique in that during her life she transcended ‘gender and genre barriers by writing
Yoshihiro Nikaido: Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction
This contribution offers a review ofYoshihiro Nikaido: Asian Folk Religion and Cultural InteractionTaipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2015.Göttingen:V&R unipress, 2015. 230 pages, with numerous figures.hardcover € [D] 49,99/€ [A] 51,40, ISBN 978-3-8471-0485-8
Explaining Conception to Women
Recent findings by Japanese and Western scholars specializing in Buddhism have cast light on a variety of theories of conception and gestation that were known within the religious and cultural milieu of medieval Japan. In the early fourteenth century, these ideas about the origins of life and the human body were incorporated not only into the esoteric Buddhist rituals and theological treatises that shaped the religious landscape of medieval Japan…
Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan
Charlotte von Verschuer, Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan
Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by the French scholar Charlotte von Verschuer is a much anticipated addition to the Needham Research Institute Monograph Series. Translated
Y ijiang Z hong . The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
The newly established Bloomsbury Shinto Studies book series continues to yield interesting research cases. Until recently in the Western imagination, Shinto was perceived as a millennium-old unbroken tradition of worshipping kami (local deities)—a religious monolith, mysterious, unique, and belonging solely to Japan. However, the arrival of academic studies investigating different aspects of kami worship is steadily chipping away at the older nar…
A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen
Reviewed by: A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen Anna Andreeva (bio) A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital. By Mark Teeuwen and John Breen. Bloomsbury, London, 2017. xii, 302 pages. $114.00, cloth; $39.95, paper; $102.60, E-book. Mark Teeuwen and John Breen's new coauthored book on the social history of the Ise shrines comes out at an interesting time, when the shrines are once again in…
Buddhist Temple Networks in Medieval Japan: Daigoji, Mt. Kōya, and the Miwa Lineage
The intellectual links between medieval esoteric temples and localized Shingon movements are still far from being well understood. Although a part of education at major monastic complexes such as Daigoji and Mt. Kōya, transmissions of esoteric theories were not uniform and varied depending on their recipients’ social status. A comparative reading of the Yugikyō transmissions imparted by the abbot Jikken of Kongōōin to his official disciple Dōhan …
Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, written by Amy Paris Langenberg
Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O'Neal
Reviewed by: Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O'Neal Anna Andreeva (bio) Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art. By Halle O'Neal. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge MA, 2018. xviii, 292 pages. $75.00. Perhaps there is no shame in admitting that even a scholar of medieval Japan can easily find the jeweled pagoda mandalas (kinji hōtō mandara) perplexing and overwhelming…
Cosmology and Embryology in Medieval Japan
This chapter considers the process and impact of adopting South and East Asian embryological notions and descriptions of fetal life into the cosmological accounts and ritual sources from early and medieval Japan. A plethora of different terms describing the stages of a fetus developing in the mother’s womb was known in both India and China, where they came to be adopted in the earliest medical or religious writings, produced by Buddhists, Daoists…
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